Wade Kelly's Blog - Posts Tagged "sequel"
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Hi.
I am back, attempting to write something half-way intelligent and interesting enough not to put you all to sleep.
It was suggested by a wonderful and insightful gal on GR that I should blog more than once a week. Hmmm... If I do, then what do I talk about? Although I like to talk, I don't often come up with interesting topics and when you have a conversation WITH someone, there are at least TWO people to come up with things to talk about. Not so with Blogging. It amazes me sometimes when I have time to read blogs and some bloggers can come up with interesting things to say all the time! Three and four times a day even!!! Astounding. Maybe I don't think that much?
(note: as I type this, I get a message that tells me to write about whatever comes to mind and be natural. Like she KNOWS I am writing about not knowing what to write about! creepy.)
What do I know about? I'd say writing, but that might come off arrogant. It's not like I have all that published and have won awards :s This is just the start of what I hope is a great and promising career. But I guess writing is what I know most and desire most so talking about would be natural.
I am working on a sequel. I had 87k written for months but lacked the time to finish it. PLUS, I was hoping to get feedback on When Love is Not Enough so that it would give me an idea if the direction I took the second book would be acceptable to the audience. So far, I have gotten some good ideas and I think I am taking the characters to a place that is not so far off that "fans" (lol, I write that like I have more than one.) would not scream at me for doing the things I do to the characters. In some ways I am very glad that I held off on finishing. I've come up with better ways to write it.
Like the first one, I am writing what I feel. I hope the readers can relate to some of it. I personally experienced many of the events contained in the pages so I hope it adds credibility and believability. If you've visited my website, you notice I claim to write about pain :p So, I have to think of ways to do that again. I have lots of pain in mind but I don't want it to be written in such a way to suspend the readers disbelief. (Is that the way you phrase it?) anyway... I hope readers can FEEL the pain and relate, maybe even cringe or yell at the book! lol My desire is to provoke readers to react. If you want a sappy, bland novel that you can read, cry about and put away, then I say go elsewhere. I want my stuff to stick with the reader for days. If I'm not doing this, let me know!!!
Pushing a reader--who is not in my head knowing what I am thinking while I write--to react and feel pain, anguish and anger, sadness and joy, makes me happy! It means I've written it well enough for you to FEEL it!
So... is this the "blogging" I need to be doing? Let me know what you think and maybe some things you'd like me to talk about?
Wade
xoxo
I am back, attempting to write something half-way intelligent and interesting enough not to put you all to sleep.
It was suggested by a wonderful and insightful gal on GR that I should blog more than once a week. Hmmm... If I do, then what do I talk about? Although I like to talk, I don't often come up with interesting topics and when you have a conversation WITH someone, there are at least TWO people to come up with things to talk about. Not so with Blogging. It amazes me sometimes when I have time to read blogs and some bloggers can come up with interesting things to say all the time! Three and four times a day even!!! Astounding. Maybe I don't think that much?
(note: as I type this, I get a message that tells me to write about whatever comes to mind and be natural. Like she KNOWS I am writing about not knowing what to write about! creepy.)
What do I know about? I'd say writing, but that might come off arrogant. It's not like I have all that published and have won awards :s This is just the start of what I hope is a great and promising career. But I guess writing is what I know most and desire most so talking about would be natural.
I am working on a sequel. I had 87k written for months but lacked the time to finish it. PLUS, I was hoping to get feedback on When Love is Not Enough so that it would give me an idea if the direction I took the second book would be acceptable to the audience. So far, I have gotten some good ideas and I think I am taking the characters to a place that is not so far off that "fans" (lol, I write that like I have more than one.) would not scream at me for doing the things I do to the characters. In some ways I am very glad that I held off on finishing. I've come up with better ways to write it.
Like the first one, I am writing what I feel. I hope the readers can relate to some of it. I personally experienced many of the events contained in the pages so I hope it adds credibility and believability. If you've visited my website, you notice I claim to write about pain :p So, I have to think of ways to do that again. I have lots of pain in mind but I don't want it to be written in such a way to suspend the readers disbelief. (Is that the way you phrase it?) anyway... I hope readers can FEEL the pain and relate, maybe even cringe or yell at the book! lol My desire is to provoke readers to react. If you want a sappy, bland novel that you can read, cry about and put away, then I say go elsewhere. I want my stuff to stick with the reader for days. If I'm not doing this, let me know!!!
Pushing a reader--who is not in my head knowing what I am thinking while I write--to react and feel pain, anguish and anger, sadness and joy, makes me happy! It means I've written it well enough for you to FEEL it!
So... is this the "blogging" I need to be doing? Let me know what you think and maybe some things you'd like me to talk about?
Wade
xoxo
