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Next Book Update
I think I am going to be one of those writers that is always trying to do something new and never does what the reader wants. Ugh. I didn’t want to be THAT kind of writer. But I did not understand how stubborn a muse can be, or what the book creating process looks like. How some authors get books out in a month, I do not know.
My process is not super complicated, not usually. I have an idea for characters, and an idea for the world that shaped them and where I want the story to go. But this writing in the same world is complicated. Especially when one doesn’t take good notes on the world as they are writing it, then they do something else for 10 months, and come back to it. I’m just saying. Some people make it harder than it needs to be because they don’t plan.
Hi, I am some people.
At this moment I have 4 unfinished stories about six that I am eager to start. If you get my email I sent out a big long one about how I plan to go about that. I may have already changed my mind and taken a different route trying to get that muse to work with the whole book process.
What is the book process? I am so glad you asked. For me, the first step is writing. 2nd step is sending to someone who can clean up the mess I made trying to write something, third is posting the rough to Wattpad. (even after the first edits I will need more.) I post on Wattpad until the book is finished, giving even more time for readers like you to offer edits (its vs it’s -because my mind does not care, and other assorted homophones, continuity issues, and please Isoellen-cut that scene.)
Once the book is finished, it is up for a very limited time before it goes for formal edits, changes, proofreading and then on to be sold. You readers have been wonderful in the past, leaving reviews, and buying the book anyway, so this process of letting you read the draft has worked for me. I will continue to do this until it doesn’t work.
Speaking of edits – are you a qualified editor who has read my books and is comfortable with all the extra commas? Every writer says they are a little different, but I do like to drop definite articles and toss semicolons and dashes around. After spending the winter writing romantic poetry on twitter, this issue is now WORSE. I’m looking for an editor that is really good with the grammar but understands what I want to do with the way the writing sounds – and I am hoping to find an editor that is not so busy that they can commit to working on books with me. Why are all the good editors taken?
Just like hunky alphas.
All that to say, “Hey you guys, new book up on Wattpad under my name, Isoellen.” It’s Finding Her Heart, the second book in the Orki War Bride series. I am posting chapter by chapter, and It will not be up much past the second week of May.
I’d love to connect with other Wattpad writers too. Send me a message if you are writing there and let’s be mutuals. I’ve looked at other platforms, even posting to my own website, but I think this is going to work for the time being. Feel free to leave comments with ideas. Let me know what you think.
You guys mean a lot to me. You are why I write. Your feedback is freakin’ CRACK.
XoXo
Isoellen
3/28/21
My process is not super complicated, not usually. I have an idea for characters, and an idea for the world that shaped them and where I want the story to go. But this writing in the same world is complicated. Especially when one doesn’t take good notes on the world as they are writing it, then they do something else for 10 months, and come back to it. I’m just saying. Some people make it harder than it needs to be because they don’t plan.
Hi, I am some people.
At this moment I have 4 unfinished stories about six that I am eager to start. If you get my email I sent out a big long one about how I plan to go about that. I may have already changed my mind and taken a different route trying to get that muse to work with the whole book process.
What is the book process? I am so glad you asked. For me, the first step is writing. 2nd step is sending to someone who can clean up the mess I made trying to write something, third is posting the rough to Wattpad. (even after the first edits I will need more.) I post on Wattpad until the book is finished, giving even more time for readers like you to offer edits (its vs it’s -because my mind does not care, and other assorted homophones, continuity issues, and please Isoellen-cut that scene.)
Once the book is finished, it is up for a very limited time before it goes for formal edits, changes, proofreading and then on to be sold. You readers have been wonderful in the past, leaving reviews, and buying the book anyway, so this process of letting you read the draft has worked for me. I will continue to do this until it doesn’t work.
Speaking of edits – are you a qualified editor who has read my books and is comfortable with all the extra commas? Every writer says they are a little different, but I do like to drop definite articles and toss semicolons and dashes around. After spending the winter writing romantic poetry on twitter, this issue is now WORSE. I’m looking for an editor that is really good with the grammar but understands what I want to do with the way the writing sounds – and I am hoping to find an editor that is not so busy that they can commit to working on books with me. Why are all the good editors taken?
Just like hunky alphas.
All that to say, “Hey you guys, new book up on Wattpad under my name, Isoellen.” It’s Finding Her Heart, the second book in the Orki War Bride series. I am posting chapter by chapter, and It will not be up much past the second week of May.
I’d love to connect with other Wattpad writers too. Send me a message if you are writing there and let’s be mutuals. I’ve looked at other platforms, even posting to my own website, but I think this is going to work for the time being. Feel free to leave comments with ideas. Let me know what you think.
You guys mean a lot to me. You are why I write. Your feedback is freakin’ CRACK.
XoXo
Isoellen
3/28/21
