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November 10, 2013
Soul Seed is now FREE!
Soul Seed is a YA Fantasy. It is the first in a series of four books. Soul seed will be FREE on Amazon for five days, from November 10, 2013 to November 14, 2013.
Landra had long since given up playing mage, a magick user. When she hears a voice in her head telling her to save the Prince, she thinks she’s crazed. Never had she considered that she may actually have magick. This will be the start of an adventure that will change her life and a world she’s never known.
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Landra had long since given up playing mage, a magick user. When she hears a voice in her head telling her to save the Prince, she thinks she’s crazed. Never had she considered that she may actually have magick. This will be the start of an adventure that will change her life and a world she’s never known.
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November 9, 2013
Soul Seed is going FREE!
Soul Seed
Soul Seed is a YA Fantasy. It is the first in a series of four books. Soul seed will be FREE on Amazon for five days, from November 10, 2013 to November 14, 2013.
Landra had long since given up playing mage, a magick user. When she hears a voice in her head telling her to save the Prince, she thinks she’s crazed. Never had she considered that she may actually have magick. This will be the start of an adventure that will change her life and a world she’s never known.
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Soul Seed is a YA Fantasy. It is the first in a series of four books. Soul seed will be FREE on Amazon for five days, from November 10, 2013 to November 14, 2013.
Landra had long since given up playing mage, a magick user. When she hears a voice in her head telling her to save the Prince, she thinks she’s crazed. Never had she considered that she may actually have magick. This will be the start of an adventure that will change her life and a world she’s never known.
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Soul Seed is going free!
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Landra had long since given up playing mage, a magick user. When she hears a voice in her head telling her to save the Prince, she thinks she’s crazed. Never had she considered that she may actually have magick. This will be the start of an adventure that will change her life and a world she’s never known.
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November 7, 2013
Published!
Well, I am officially published! Three cheers... I am only self published thanks to the marvelous world of Amazon and Kindle. It feels crazy, but I decided I would just let the public decide if they like my writing or not. I know if I want any sort of decent sales I will have to market my own book, but so be it. I wrote the book for me and I can only hope that others will get just as much enjoyment from it as I did.
Soul Seed Landra had long since given up playing mage, a magick user. When she hears a voice in her head telling her to save the Prince, she thinks she’s crazed. Never had she considered that she may actually have magick. This will be the start of an adventure that will change her life and a world she’s never known.http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Seed-Racha...
Soul Seed Landra had long since given up playing mage, a magick user. When she hears a voice in her head telling her to save the Prince, she thinks she’s crazed. Never had she considered that she may actually have magick. This will be the start of an adventure that will change her life and a world she’s never known.http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Seed-Racha...
August 1, 2013
Things I've Learned While Writing...
Writing the first draft is an adventure:
I truly enjoy the first draft. I love discovering the characters as I write. I write with a very loose plot line. I am a mix of pantser and outliner. This way I always have a goal to go to, while still allowing myself to take advantage of the sparks of ideas I have. I am always amazing myself with the things I come up with. For example: I was writing a scene were the MC overhears the one of the support characters propose to the other character. I had no clue that this was going to happen until my fingers hit the keyboard, but I loved it. This was definitely not planned, but it allowed me to delve more into the other characters in a way that was much better than my MC just finding out that the other characters were dating.
Writing is trial and error:
There is so much that I write that ends up being changed. Either I am writing and I realise that a character is not being true to themselves or the plot is spinning in a direction that is not benefitial to the story. Always ask youself, "Is this working?"
Don't be afraid to drastically change things. It might be for the better. Your words are not permanent and they can always be changed back.
Rewrite your beginning:
Your beggining is crap, unless its you have already rewritten it over and over. Beggining are meant for figuring things out. Once you have your ideas set, you can polish them. Do polish them, your readers with thank you.
Hook you reader on the first page:
This is huge. I put down J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when I was a kid, because the first page bored me. I didn't pick it up again till a year later. I love the Harry Potter series, they were the books that taught me how to really read and enjoy books. If you can't hook your reader, they are not going to read your book.
Read:
Read anything and everything you can get your hands on. Read your shampoo bottle (I'm not kidding, those copy writers sure know how to make things sound enticing.) There are always thing you can learn from other others, even poor ones.
Keep a journal:
Write daily. Write down every profound thought you have. Don't throw away anything even if its bad. It can always be edited or rewritten into something marvelous. Even if you don't, its helpful reminder to see how far you have come.
Do not wait for inspiration:
You are stalling! It is the same thing as writers' block. It is a myth. Okay, even I feel it sometimes. I stall because I don't know where I am going, but do you stop living and breathing because you don't know where you are going? No! Inspiration will come to you when you are ready, but you need to make yourself ready. Feed your mind, practice writing, and don't stall.
Edit:
There are always things that can be made smoother, ideas more concrete, dialog more true to the character. I know editing can be like pulling teeth, but a story needs to be deconstructed so it can be made into something better.
Research:
Can give you amazing ideas or it can bog you down. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Your charaters will change:
It's inevitable, you can't expect them not to unless you put them in a glass jar and never let anything happen to them. You may not always like the changes, but it means the characters are real.
Everything and everyone has a reason:
Whether you reveal the reason is up to you, but everything should have a reason.
When you write new impostant things:
Go back and foreshadow, even the littlest hint helps. Don't pull punches out of the blue on your readers, they will hate you for it.
Cut the cliche's:
You reader will notice, guaranteed. Also cut references to things that detract fro your story. I recently read a YA Fantasy Romance book where the narrator made an allusion that screamed Spider Man. It just did not fit. That stuck with me the entire book. Also multiple characters cannot use the same odd word(s) that are not used in their time/place period. Read another book where four different characters of all different ages used the word "rabble-rouse." It stuck out like a sore thumb, pun intended.
Just keep writing:
No matter what anyone says about it, just keep writing. As long as you enjoy it, you shouldn't care what anyone else things about you writing (this is also good life advice.) Do get edited when you can, take the suggestions and think about them. Use them if they are good, if not, toss them. Don't let it be too personal when you get edited, the person is critiquing your writing, not you.
I truly enjoy the first draft. I love discovering the characters as I write. I write with a very loose plot line. I am a mix of pantser and outliner. This way I always have a goal to go to, while still allowing myself to take advantage of the sparks of ideas I have. I am always amazing myself with the things I come up with. For example: I was writing a scene were the MC overhears the one of the support characters propose to the other character. I had no clue that this was going to happen until my fingers hit the keyboard, but I loved it. This was definitely not planned, but it allowed me to delve more into the other characters in a way that was much better than my MC just finding out that the other characters were dating.
Writing is trial and error:
There is so much that I write that ends up being changed. Either I am writing and I realise that a character is not being true to themselves or the plot is spinning in a direction that is not benefitial to the story. Always ask youself, "Is this working?"
Don't be afraid to drastically change things. It might be for the better. Your words are not permanent and they can always be changed back.
Rewrite your beginning:
Your beggining is crap, unless its you have already rewritten it over and over. Beggining are meant for figuring things out. Once you have your ideas set, you can polish them. Do polish them, your readers with thank you.
Hook you reader on the first page:
This is huge. I put down J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when I was a kid, because the first page bored me. I didn't pick it up again till a year later. I love the Harry Potter series, they were the books that taught me how to really read and enjoy books. If you can't hook your reader, they are not going to read your book.
Read:
Read anything and everything you can get your hands on. Read your shampoo bottle (I'm not kidding, those copy writers sure know how to make things sound enticing.) There are always thing you can learn from other others, even poor ones.
Keep a journal:
Write daily. Write down every profound thought you have. Don't throw away anything even if its bad. It can always be edited or rewritten into something marvelous. Even if you don't, its helpful reminder to see how far you have come.
Do not wait for inspiration:
You are stalling! It is the same thing as writers' block. It is a myth. Okay, even I feel it sometimes. I stall because I don't know where I am going, but do you stop living and breathing because you don't know where you are going? No! Inspiration will come to you when you are ready, but you need to make yourself ready. Feed your mind, practice writing, and don't stall.
Edit:
There are always things that can be made smoother, ideas more concrete, dialog more true to the character. I know editing can be like pulling teeth, but a story needs to be deconstructed so it can be made into something better.
Research:
Can give you amazing ideas or it can bog you down. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Your charaters will change:
It's inevitable, you can't expect them not to unless you put them in a glass jar and never let anything happen to them. You may not always like the changes, but it means the characters are real.
Everything and everyone has a reason:
Whether you reveal the reason is up to you, but everything should have a reason.
When you write new impostant things:
Go back and foreshadow, even the littlest hint helps. Don't pull punches out of the blue on your readers, they will hate you for it.
Cut the cliche's:
You reader will notice, guaranteed. Also cut references to things that detract fro your story. I recently read a YA Fantasy Romance book where the narrator made an allusion that screamed Spider Man. It just did not fit. That stuck with me the entire book. Also multiple characters cannot use the same odd word(s) that are not used in their time/place period. Read another book where four different characters of all different ages used the word "rabble-rouse." It stuck out like a sore thumb, pun intended.
Just keep writing:
No matter what anyone says about it, just keep writing. As long as you enjoy it, you shouldn't care what anyone else things about you writing (this is also good life advice.) Do get edited when you can, take the suggestions and think about them. Use them if they are good, if not, toss them. Don't let it be too personal when you get edited, the person is critiquing your writing, not you.
July 17, 2013
Finishing a Novel: Mixed Emotions
Yesterday, I realized that I have only one more chapter to write (about 5k words.) Then I am done writing this novel. I still have to revise, but that is another story.
I feel a little regretful that I am almost finished with it. Partly because now my characters will not surprise me anymore and partly because its done. I want the story to go on forever. In a way, that would be comforting because I would never have to say goodbye. I am obviously attacked to these characters.
Otherwise, I am glad to be done with the first initial writing of my manuscript. I am glad I am done because my I always have more ideas t write than I can keep up with.
It's all bittersweet.
How does finishing a novel make you feel?
I feel a little regretful that I am almost finished with it. Partly because now my characters will not surprise me anymore and partly because its done. I want the story to go on forever. In a way, that would be comforting because I would never have to say goodbye. I am obviously attacked to these characters.
Otherwise, I am glad to be done with the first initial writing of my manuscript. I am glad I am done because my I always have more ideas t write than I can keep up with.
It's all bittersweet.
How does finishing a novel make you feel?
July 16, 2013
Longing
How do you write a feeling of such longing? Such longing that crushes as much as despairs? Longing should give me a sense of hope that it might one day be, but instead it fills my mind with doubt.
How does one make another feel your longing? Not for a touch or a kiss. Just to share the same feeling that grows inside your chest and clouds your mind. Just to share so you know you are not alone?
I long for another, but I am afraid there is none. I long for someone to share my life with. I long for something I cannot have because I am too scared to let anyone in.
I am scared that if I let someone in and they left or betrayed me, I would fall to pieces, never to put to rights again. I protect myself, I am glass wrapped in paper.
Have you ever been hurt so bad that you’re so determined that you can’t let anyone in again for your own safety?
I know that I am the one who cannot let my longing heart reach solitude. What does this make me? Am I any better than the cutter who bleeds from their wrists just to feel something? Am I holding onto broken despair just so I can feel something? Or is my longing to feel that proves that I am only human?
July 8, 2013
Staring at the Blank Screen
For me, writing is both easy and hard. When I am in character's mind it flows with almost no effort, but when I have to be myself, suddenly the words stop. That is probably the reason why I am such a sporadic blogger.
I blog best when I have an emotion behind it.When I try work on my manuscript in the same state, nothing good comes of it.
I almost need to be in the same state of mind before I begin writing, just so I an fall into the story. Once I am there, I can feel again. I can feel my characters pain and joy.
Becoming my characters in those short moments is why I love writing.
I blog best when I have an emotion behind it.When I try work on my manuscript in the same state, nothing good comes of it.
I almost need to be in the same state of mind before I begin writing, just so I an fall into the story. Once I am there, I can feel again. I can feel my characters pain and joy.
Becoming my characters in those short moments is why I love writing.
June 11, 2013
When Fear Strikes You
When fear strikes you, know that it means you are doing what you want to do. When fear strikes you, know that it is only the fear of failure. When fear strikes you know that all you need to do is push through and you will reach the euphoria.
Fear hits me hard when I am writing. So hard that it causes tears.
Fear has caused writer's block for me.
The thing I realized is that I am afraid of failing. I am afraid of failing because there is no set path to write. Even if I do finish my novel (Dear God, I hope I do because I only need 20,000 more words.) will I be able to publish? Even if I publish, will it be a success?
It all boils down to I am afraid of failure. Failure is my fear.
What if we stopped being afraid of failure? What if we knew that failure wasn't bad, only a stepping stone on the path to success? Imagine what we would finish, the things we loved to so but stopped because society said, "You can't make it at that."
Who said that? Who came up with the stupid idea that it is bad to fail. I want to shoot you.
Fear only means that this is important. So when fear strikes you, know it is a good thing.
Fear hits me hard when I am writing. So hard that it causes tears.
Fear has caused writer's block for me.
The thing I realized is that I am afraid of failing. I am afraid of failing because there is no set path to write. Even if I do finish my novel (Dear God, I hope I do because I only need 20,000 more words.) will I be able to publish? Even if I publish, will it be a success?
It all boils down to I am afraid of failure. Failure is my fear.
What if we stopped being afraid of failure? What if we knew that failure wasn't bad, only a stepping stone on the path to success? Imagine what we would finish, the things we loved to so but stopped because society said, "You can't make it at that."
Who said that? Who came up with the stupid idea that it is bad to fail. I want to shoot you.
Fear only means that this is important. So when fear strikes you, know it is a good thing.
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