Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Response to my last night's Blog was the usual...

But what can one expect?
One night I am miserable and explaining my latest boo, boo hurts and the next I am trying to make nice and be cheerful, and no folks I am not bi-polar, at least I was never diagnosed as one, who knows. Too serious an ill to make light of…
But I am in reality no different than most woman of any age with feelings and emotions that vary.
Men blame our hormones for them not understanding how we react to things, but they also have them and you never ever hear them say that Jack was upset last night due to his hormones, do you?
Ha!
That would be a joke, huh?

Believe me when I tell you that I never know what I am going to write on this Blog until I write the title, and that becomes my beginning. I am quite prolific if I do say so myself, and for that is something I can be proud of…
Many writers’ do that so I have been told by the real money maker types, the pros that I had sign books of theirs that I bought to read.
Some have different processes when it comes to the methods for writing a novel, which I have tried, actually, a few novellas of my own a murder mystery series of five written in the last century over nine hundred pages in total. What I found to be helpful was to write an outline, not that different from the ones you wrote when you studied in English or history class with a beginning, middle and ending. But when writing from scratch you also must fill in the blanks with ideas from your imagination; got that? Snippets of images during the day or night come into your mind and should be jotted down too. Those are your possibilities to use or toss later.
The whole process of writing just fascinates me.
When I wrote those novellas back in the late 1990’s I would awake way before dawn since my brain was flooded with the ideas that needed to be put down on paper, although even then I used this technological wonder tool AKA ‘the computer’ although, an earlier generational model from my current one. My capabilities were ten thousand words a week industry or my own concoction; talk about putting out! LOL!
All writing takes research even fiction or especially, nah both types!
Accuracy is extremely important whenever you state what you want the reader to believe as fact, and one should never mislead.
Although, with fiction your perimeters are ever expanding and you do have that poetic license thing in your favor, right?
Creating your own reality is when fiction really does blossom, correct?

I, oddly enough, as I am sure many do realize I have no qualifications to teach a course on writing but I do enjoy sharing from my personal experiences…
Any hack like me would do themselves proud to find someone with the credentials to either edit or steer them towards the classes to take to know what’s next in getting what your desires are to be seen and therefore published by a reputable house that is willing to take the chance on a new writer.
Unfortunately, in this economy they are few and far between.
But if you are already a celebrity, no problem, have you noticed this unique situation?
Hilary Duff has just had her first novel published for an example.
Since it is illegal to steal famous people’s names … what are the rest of us to do?
That’s where self publishing come into the fold.
Sadly, I have never believed in this ‘cop-out’ as I prejudicially irresponsibly will say.
Aside from the fact that it can be quite costly, so I have been told and to me it says that your writing isn’t really good enough, but that is just my biased opinion and we all know how much that is worth.
But I am from a different generation than many of you.
This is not to say that I have not met people who have actually self-published and found it quite satisfying since they take their books wherever they go to hawk them to the public at large and have made sales.
Most will say that they only pay for the ones they have printed, in lots I do believe.
E-Books I have no real knowledge of but as I understand it they are similar in the amount published for sale and that you have control over that quantity too.

Hope I helped any of you out there with a bit of information, if not I am truly sorry!
But folks this is all I got and I am NOT that smart… and remember this is FREE STUFF!

Any-who… happy night to all and to all count those blessings and try and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

PS TERRIFIC FOR THOSE CHILEAN MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES COMING UP AND OUT! Hooray! Hip hip hooray!

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