J. Hieb's Blog
August 15, 2023
I think I'm a Writer...
After my first novel, Breaking Seven, was released in 2019, it felt a little like the world fell flat. I'm not sure what I expected, but it was a little more than a few Facebook likes - I was good, right? I'd written a book, right?
The sheer amount of disappointment that followed - a solid 85% of blame falling on the 2020 pandemic - almost ended my writing career. But I think for some of us, it's engrained in the very nature of who we are. I can't not write.
Luckily, my 9-5 job lets me do a solid amount of writing and meets some of that need, but it's just not the same.
At some point, the voices in my head - the characters - got too loud and I couldn't not write. Those voices were the voices of Beauty, and the demons that plagued her.
After releasing They Call Me Beauty, something changed. I felt like I had done something that I was meant to do. No question about it.
Now, months later, I am working on leaving my full-time job to dive headfirst into writing.
The voices are loud again. The characters need to have their story told. To be quite honest, I'm a little concerned that I might go insane if I don't get them out, although there's something to be said about writers and insanity, I'm not entirely sure if you can have one without the other. But that's just me.
J.Hieb
The sheer amount of disappointment that followed - a solid 85% of blame falling on the 2020 pandemic - almost ended my writing career. But I think for some of us, it's engrained in the very nature of who we are. I can't not write.
Luckily, my 9-5 job lets me do a solid amount of writing and meets some of that need, but it's just not the same.
At some point, the voices in my head - the characters - got too loud and I couldn't not write. Those voices were the voices of Beauty, and the demons that plagued her.
After releasing They Call Me Beauty, something changed. I felt like I had done something that I was meant to do. No question about it.
Now, months later, I am working on leaving my full-time job to dive headfirst into writing.
The voices are loud again. The characters need to have their story told. To be quite honest, I'm a little concerned that I might go insane if I don't get them out, although there's something to be said about writers and insanity, I'm not entirely sure if you can have one without the other. But that's just me.
J.Hieb
