Julie A. Rainey's Blog, page 15
March 30, 2012
How watching the TV Show House helps me write
I have never watched the show before a few weeks ago. My dad had told me about it when it first aired but I was an avid devotee of the CSI crowd and was far too interested in it and other crime dramas. But as the years wore on and crime dramas began to loose their appeal after the hundredth one, I decided to see what it was all about.
Let me just say it only took one episode and I was hooked. I spent the next few weeks trying to catch up on the story line so I could watch the new episodes only to find that it's going off the air in May. Bummer. But there are still plenty of episodes I haven't seen yet.
So back on the subject at hand. Yes, watching House started my creative juices flowing and since I have DVR, I was able to pause when inspiration struck and jot something in my notebook. Then it just keep flowing out of my brain until an hour later, the storyline for the book was born.
There has to be something with the way House's mind works and the complex relationships and characters on the show that got me to thinking about my own characters in my book. And although the genre I write in has nothing really to do with medicine it was just the spark I needed to ignite the fires in my own imagination.
You never know where a muse will come from.
Let me just say it only took one episode and I was hooked. I spent the next few weeks trying to catch up on the story line so I could watch the new episodes only to find that it's going off the air in May. Bummer. But there are still plenty of episodes I haven't seen yet.
So back on the subject at hand. Yes, watching House started my creative juices flowing and since I have DVR, I was able to pause when inspiration struck and jot something in my notebook. Then it just keep flowing out of my brain until an hour later, the storyline for the book was born.
There has to be something with the way House's mind works and the complex relationships and characters on the show that got me to thinking about my own characters in my book. And although the genre I write in has nothing really to do with medicine it was just the spark I needed to ignite the fires in my own imagination.
You never know where a muse will come from.
March 29, 2012
Publishing is the easy part.
My illusions of grandeur were very short lived as I realized rather quickly that publishing your eBook is the easy part. Once it's out there it's not like the whole world just automatically knows it. If you really want to be successful I've learned you must market yourself.
Well what about those of us that have never been on Facebook before or even commented on a blog. I know it sounds crazy but I had never done any of those things before today. I have scoured the internet for ways to market your book and the same theme keeps popping up. Social Networking. Since this is a relatively new concept for me as I was an avid anti-facebooker since Mark Zuckerberg created it, I decided to bite the bullet and finally sign up. In doing so I realized there are actually a lot of people I know but not as many as most other people out there. For instance one of my closest friends has over 300 "Friends" on Facebook while I only have around 40. Most of those being family that are already well aware I have published a book. The others, to the best of my knowledge, don't like science fiction.
So I'm stuck. Where do I find my fellow nerds out there that love sci-fi as much as me?
Well what about those of us that have never been on Facebook before or even commented on a blog. I know it sounds crazy but I had never done any of those things before today. I have scoured the internet for ways to market your book and the same theme keeps popping up. Social Networking. Since this is a relatively new concept for me as I was an avid anti-facebooker since Mark Zuckerberg created it, I decided to bite the bullet and finally sign up. In doing so I realized there are actually a lot of people I know but not as many as most other people out there. For instance one of my closest friends has over 300 "Friends" on Facebook while I only have around 40. Most of those being family that are already well aware I have published a book. The others, to the best of my knowledge, don't like science fiction.
So I'm stuck. Where do I find my fellow nerds out there that love sci-fi as much as me?
March 28, 2012
Day 4
Let me just say that I now know what it feels like to be the last one to show up a party. There is no grand entrance or fireworks. Just a fizzle and lots of weird looks.
March 25, 2012
Day 1
Day one of my book being out there for the world to view. Not sure if I want to throw up or jump for joy. Probably both. This experience has been fun and exhausting and I hope it all was not in vain.
