Dang I suck at blogging

I know, I know, everyone sucks at blogging, unless you're addicted to it, but I just opened my tanning salon, so I'll have plenty of time to blog and twitter and facebook... yay. haha

so I've started writing the sequel to The Cephas Bourdon Series. If you have any input, you should post it, or email it to amberm.hooper@gmail.com. by the way, have any of you ever googled yourself? We were screwing around on the internet the other day, and I am apparently an artist, I go to graduate school, and I sing really well... so it was a good way for me to become self-actualized without doing anything at all. Try it- it's very gratifying :)

So I outlined the majority of the sequel, and I've written most of the first chapter. I always read writers' blogs about how they felt so connected to their characters, as if they were real people. I never felt like that- until now. I don't know if that makes me a terrible writer (plus I just used the word terrible, which my jr. high english teacher strictly forbid- oh, and I didn't capitalize English- I'm hopeless!), but I finally feel like my characters are alive! I'm so excited! Now I know how Emmaline feels when Cephas smirks at her, be it utter annoyance or throat-catching want. I feel kind of exposed, somehow, as I write on this blog, but then I remember that I published a book with feelings and secrets I would probably never reveal anywhere else. Such is life.

Until next time,

A. M. Hooper