Writing Process Blog Tour
Thank you for stopping by for this week’s Writing Process Blog Tour!
This is a travelling blog tour that pops up every Monday for writers to share a little about what, how and why they write. If you’re a writer, I hope it cheers you on your journey — and if you’re not, hopefully it will give you some little insight into the lives of the people who create the stories you love.
First things first. Thank you to the lovely LK Gardner-Griffie for inviting me to participate. Lk and I met on twitter a couple years ago and then in person several times. She is an inspiration to many and does really care about what is going on in my world. She writes young adult fiction and is working on some super secret things that we can’t talk about, which makes her all the more cool. Check our her part of the world, griffieworld.com, and possibly find your next read!
As part of this tour I have to answer some specific questions, so without further ado…
1. What am I working on?
Right now, I’m working on finishing up the 2nd draft run through of Pieces of Me 2, still mostly unnammed. I think I have a name for it, but I’m not going to release it yet for fear it is snatched up. That has happened before, so I’m being careful with it.
I’m hoping to have this run through completed in June. I feel like my dates keep changing for this, but I’ve had some medical things happening and now that we are at a middle ground, I think I can focus on life again. Which in turn means writing… maybe.
2. How does my work differ from others in its genre?
Oh goodness, I have no idea. It’s not like anything people have read before, so I’ve been told. The genre is YA Sci-Thriller but goes so much deeper then that. Maybe the biggest difference is that the character is not motivated by love, but knowledge. While there is def a love story intertwined, this is not the goal of the book. It’s not getting the main character together with the guy. It may happen, but it’s not the main focus. The driving force is definitely knowledge.
3. Why do I write what I do?
I mostly write YA and MG because my children are of the age right now that they enjoy those books and I truly love sharing the finished works with them. Sometimes they are even beta readers and let me know what they think before it’s published.
4. How does my writing process work?
This is also a hard question because it looks different every time I write a book. Sometimes I plot the pieces out and put them in order and try to stick to it. But most of the time I write by the seat of my pants. Like I’m watching a movie in my head and just writing along behind, following my character through his/her scenes. Sometimes what I think it going to happen actually doesn’t! And then other times it certainly happens the way I “planned”.
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