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Rachel Gibson
Hi Angel,
I love writing hockey books, but it's difficult to develop plots that coalesce with the hockey season. It's long and the players are gone a lot. If and when I come up with something new and different, I'd love to write another Hockey team.
I love writing hockey books, but it's difficult to develop plots that coalesce with the hockey season. It's long and the players are gone a lot. If and when I come up with something new and different, I'd love to write another Hockey team.
Rachel Gibson
Hi Amana,
My first attempted at writing a book actually was a historical romance. It started off as a rewrite of Gone With The Wind, but somewhere along the way, Scarlett's name changed to Suzanna and Rhett became Phillip. They left Atlanta and moved into a brownstone in NY.
I have no idea where that manuscript is today. Hopefully, I burned it. I love reading historical romance, but I leave the writing of them up to the professionals.
My first attempted at writing a book actually was a historical romance. It started off as a rewrite of Gone With The Wind, but somewhere along the way, Scarlett's name changed to Suzanna and Rhett became Phillip. They left Atlanta and moved into a brownstone in NY.
I have no idea where that manuscript is today. Hopefully, I burned it. I love reading historical romance, but I leave the writing of them up to the professionals.
Rachel Gibson
I only need one sentence. Cowboy with no teeth wrote "romantic" poetry to me while I was at a book signing.
Rachel Gibson
Rejections are extremely tough, but the most valuable lessons I learned came from rejections-although I didn't know it at the time. I wrote three books in five years and got 23 rejection letters. Of course, I thought I was brilliant and the people who couldn't see it were stupid. Looking back, perhaps some of those people were stupid, but I wasn't writing a brilliant masterpiece like I thought I was, either.
The best piece of advice I can give is also the hardest. Put your brilliant masterpiece in a drawer-it'll always be there if you want to come back to it sometime in the future. Figure out why your work is being rejected; then sit down and write a better and more marketable book. I know that each time I was knocked flat, I got up a better writer.
The best piece of advice I can give is also the hardest. Put your brilliant masterpiece in a drawer-it'll always be there if you want to come back to it sometime in the future. Figure out why your work is being rejected; then sit down and write a better and more marketable book. I know that each time I was knocked flat, I got up a better writer.
Rachel Gibson
Working in my pajamas. That's also the worst thing, too. I never answer the door before three in the afternoon.
Rachel Gibson
Unfortunately, not very well. It's a void of creativity and crippling fear.
Rachel Gibson
Hi Christine,
To answer your first question: I wrote 20 romance novels and 4 novellas and came to the point where I couldn't think of a plot, setting, or characters that I hadn't written already. I was just blank. Believe me, I didn't want to fall off the earth, but there was just nothing I could do about it.
Re: Kleenex,
I don't really laugh or cry when I write a book. My eyes might get a little misty and I may chuckle a little at the scenes playing out on my head, but I'm paying attention to the mechanics of the scene at the same time, e.g. how many time I write the word hand on the same page. So to answer your question, I guess it depends on if you're a crier. If you're not, there's maybe one scene that might make your eyes a little misty
Thanks for your questions,
Rachel
To answer your first question: I wrote 20 romance novels and 4 novellas and came to the point where I couldn't think of a plot, setting, or characters that I hadn't written already. I was just blank. Believe me, I didn't want to fall off the earth, but there was just nothing I could do about it.
Re: Kleenex,
I don't really laugh or cry when I write a book. My eyes might get a little misty and I may chuckle a little at the scenes playing out on my head, but I'm paying attention to the mechanics of the scene at the same time, e.g. how many time I write the word hand on the same page. So to answer your question, I guess it depends on if you're a crier. If you're not, there's maybe one scene that might make your eyes a little misty
Thanks for your questions,
Rachel
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May 07, 2021 12:42AM