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As I sit here and try to decide what to write to for you wonderful followers, I find myself lost. I haven’t been writing this week much, and I find that discouraging for myself, but ultimately I find myself discouraged for my readers. I care about them as much as I do my children and I know many of you are waiting with bated breath for my next book release. I’m going to let you in on a little secret; sometimes I truly have nothing to write. Call it what you want no mojo, not feeling it or just lost, but it is what it is.

Unfortunately, I have created the world in my books where in some cases I have the vast knowledge or places to go making the words flow like water. In other cases, I have to wait for ideas to hit or outside influence to take over for where I lack in personal understanding, therefore, stunting my train of thought. I love to write intrigue and suspense, but I’m also writing a romantic comedy. I read a lot of different genre books and therefore have found myself with ideas for stories that are all over the board.

As I’ve mentioned before I always wait until inspiration hits, I personally hate writing drivel just to be writing and finding out I have to delete. I wrote a section in my romantic comedy that was just information on a page and was only just over 500 words. After sleeping on it, I decided to rewrite the section. For fear, I was going to write something far worse I didn’t delete the original text, so I split off the section and began to write. I was in the moment, and words came out that I didn’t even know were there. So when I was finished and had deleted the previously written blather, I had almost quadrupled my word count.

I don’t have a set word count for my books, but I do know in order to be a full-length novel in my genre I have to break 70,000 words. I don’t use word counts daily except to be sure I know approximately when I will be able to release. So if I am able to write 1200 words as a minimum per day my release date can still occur close to intended. Well, I haven’t written my quota every day this week. That means I need a great writing day or I’ll have to push the release back further. I’m forcing myself to stay on task with my Romantic Suspense/Thriller second book release because I feel my readers are waiting on that one more than the Romantic Comedy that none of them have much knowledge of. That said, I’m hoping for a dual release within days of each other.

I’m not a marketing professional, and I’m also, not going to say I ever KNOW what I’m doing. I am a firm believer of trial and error or even do what I’m told. I follow lots of amazing people who have already invented the wheel. I’d much rather not do extra work to get my product out there.

One thing that I’ve done that has been a dream since I started this process was to create my book trailer. Unfortunately, my budget is that of a lowly writer, and that means I have to go the free route for now. That doesn’t make my trailer any less amazing. I think you will agree! Check it out here https://animoto.com/play/9jjfofa4Awj44fXYKyBalg and let me know what you think.

I know all previous posts have been about my vision and this one is more about my lack thereof, but I believe it is important to see all sides of the process. I believe that I can’t have writer’s block if I’m able to write anything and so I decided to write this for you guys. If you haven’t checked out my book yet, readers have said they found themselves holding their breath in anticipation. DO you love a good suspense thriller with just enough romance to take the edge off? Dangerous After Dark is the book for you! It is $2.99 on Kindle, or you can read it today on Kindle Unlimited check it out here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071JSLQN3