Ask the Author: Jaye Em Edgecliff
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Jaye Em Edgecliff
Oh, sorry for the delay in answering. Goodreads didn't bother to tell me about your question and I don't spend much time on the site.
Yes, I do intend to finish the series shortly. Book 2 is already out, and I'm in the process of writing book 3. With luck it should come out summer of 2015, but it could be delayed to later in 2015. Book 4 is expected out in 2016, but as I'm not done writing 3 I can only guess at 4 beyond the epilogue which was written before Love or Lust was done.
Yes, I do intend to finish the series shortly. Book 2 is already out, and I'm in the process of writing book 3. With luck it should come out summer of 2015, but it could be delayed to later in 2015. Book 4 is expected out in 2016, but as I'm not done writing 3 I can only guess at 4 beyond the epilogue which was written before Love or Lust was done.
Jaye Em Edgecliff
Mostly I cry.
Really, I don't have a constructive way of dealing with it. I have yet to meet anyone who sincerely does. Each writer has her own methods, some work for them … some are delusional.
I could go on about random iTunes lists and the Electric Sheep screensaver (does that even still exist?), except it didn't work for me as it does for Spider Robinson.
I could talk about prayer, but if that does help it's slow enough as to not seem an obvious solution.
Long walk in the wilderness? Maybe, depends where the block is coming from.
Backtracking and finding the part of the story where you went the wrong way? Yeah, that's worked before and other times not at all.
Crying doesn't help either, really. The writer's block is still there, but it might get me a hug or a cup of tea, and that's probably just as good, right?
Really, I don't have a constructive way of dealing with it. I have yet to meet anyone who sincerely does. Each writer has her own methods, some work for them … some are delusional.
I could go on about random iTunes lists and the Electric Sheep screensaver (does that even still exist?), except it didn't work for me as it does for Spider Robinson.
I could talk about prayer, but if that does help it's slow enough as to not seem an obvious solution.
Long walk in the wilderness? Maybe, depends where the block is coming from.
Backtracking and finding the part of the story where you went the wrong way? Yeah, that's worked before and other times not at all.
Crying doesn't help either, really. The writer's block is still there, but it might get me a hug or a cup of tea, and that's probably just as good, right?
Jaye Em Edgecliff
Is this a trick question?
Just kidding.
http://amzn.to/1oGuIYH > reviews like this. Others I've got as well, but to know that you've touched someone. It's the only reward in writing. It's hard work, if it paid peanuts that'd be a substantial raise, but it's not always entirely thankless and that makes it worth it.
Meeting the characters, hearing their stories? Those are great. Really, it's what drives you to write in the first place and, until you've published, perhaps THAT is the best thing … if only by default since there's no other competition, in my opinion, but once it's out there and people are reading it and responding? That's even more wonderful.
Just kidding.
http://amzn.to/1oGuIYH > reviews like this. Others I've got as well, but to know that you've touched someone. It's the only reward in writing. It's hard work, if it paid peanuts that'd be a substantial raise, but it's not always entirely thankless and that makes it worth it.
Meeting the characters, hearing their stories? Those are great. Really, it's what drives you to write in the first place and, until you've published, perhaps THAT is the best thing … if only by default since there's no other competition, in my opinion, but once it's out there and people are reading it and responding? That's even more wonderful.
Jaye Em Edgecliff
Write your story. Screw all the writing advice out there. You like adverbs? use them lavishly. Do you like to split infinitives? You're weird, there's actually no such creature in English (seriously). Do you want to end a sentence with a preposition? Go right on ahead with your rebel self (besides, it's not actually any violation of English grammar … no, really, it's not).
Write the story you want to write. Don't ask yourself it it will sell. Remember, J K Rowling was writing in an, ahem, "dead genre". You never know until you write it.
DO get a good editor. A good editor as defined by someone who will help you find your genuine grammar, spelling, and orthographical mistakes. One who will look at the story as a whole and tell you where parts aren't clear, are contradictory, etc. and offer you a hand in correcting them SHOULD YOU NEED IT.
Aside from that it doesn't matter. It simply doesn't matter. If an agent or publisher won't take it, self-publish.
Write the story you want to write. Don't ask yourself it it will sell. Remember, J K Rowling was writing in an, ahem, "dead genre". You never know until you write it.
DO get a good editor. A good editor as defined by someone who will help you find your genuine grammar, spelling, and orthographical mistakes. One who will look at the story as a whole and tell you where parts aren't clear, are contradictory, etc. and offer you a hand in correcting them SHOULD YOU NEED IT.
Aside from that it doesn't matter. It simply doesn't matter. If an agent or publisher won't take it, self-publish.
Jaye Em Edgecliff
Ostensibly the third book in Now & Forever, but I'm stuck in it right now.
I'm kind of tinkering with an interesting little romance that seems to be about a transgender girl. No idea what that's going to be exactly nor what it's specifically going to be about; though I like the boy she's met, he's an interesting character.
I'm kind of tinkering with an interesting little romance that seems to be about a transgender girl. No idea what that's going to be exactly nor what it's specifically going to be about; though I like the boy she's met, he's an interesting character.
Jaye Em Edgecliff
Generally, I get my ideas from the voices in my head. Seriously, I just write. I may be given the germ of inspiration from something I read or see, even sometimes by something else I'm writing. It might be a joke someone makes, or … anything.
I've seen many of my favourite authors answer this questions with variations on "from life", and I think it's a good answer. It doesn't matter if you're Edgar Rice Burroughs writing Princess of Mars or Laura Wilder writing Little House in the Big Woods, some collection of experiences in your life inspired the story. If you can pin it down to just one thing, you may want to read your work carefully and ask yourself "is this a bit flat?"
I've seen many of my favourite authors answer this questions with variations on "from life", and I think it's a good answer. It doesn't matter if you're Edgar Rice Burroughs writing Princess of Mars or Laura Wilder writing Little House in the Big Woods, some collection of experiences in your life inspired the story. If you can pin it down to just one thing, you may want to read your work carefully and ask yourself "is this a bit flat?"
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