I honestly don't know how some authors do it - pump out book after book after book. And I don't say that rudely, I swear, some authors are able to do it, and produce GOOD work, and it's impressive.

My creativity just don't flow that well. It's spotty, at best. I finished writing the Kane Trilogy last May(ish), and that was the last time I wrote "the end" for a LONG. TIME.

Started LOTS of stuff. Stuff I've already forgotten about, and stuff I hope I go back to. But nothing that stuck. Nothing that flowed.

Then I joined a word count group in January, and I worked on one of those aforementioned "stuffs". But I could tell. As I hacked away and plodded along, I could just tell - I wasn't feeling it.

So I got to thinking about my meme that helped me through Degradation, the "write in a way that scares you a little" - then I tacked on a blog I read. Crazily enough, months ago I read a blog written by an author talking about her experience as an indie author, from start to present day. She talked about her first book, it's surprise success, the continued success of the series, then releasing a book that didn't do as great. She wrote about how she figured it was the end of her indie career, and how she made a decision that if her career was gonna end, then she was gonna end it with a bang, and she was gonna write a story she'd been thinking about for a while, but she knew people would hate it.

WRONG. It turned into a HUGE blockbuster success. People loved it. And she kept on writing.

Double strange - I read that article months ago. The author who wrote it? Ella Fox. Author who created the Word Count Group I joined? Ella Fox. I didn't connect the dots till later.

While I don't think my indie career is ending, I took my beloved meme and her words and decided "fuck it, I can do that, too" and just went for it.

A long time ago, I thought of a story line, but I didn't work on it at all, because it was a subject matter that is not well received in this community. It could get shot down before it's even released, why write about it!? Just push it aside!

Only it wouldn't be pushed aside. It's been there in the background for a long time, so I thought of that meme and I thought of her blog post, and I went for it. I opened a blank document and decided to see if this idea would go anywhere.

Less than two weeks later, I had 80,000 words and a stand alone, completed novel, something I hadn't accomplished in eight months. People may hate it. People may love it. But I wrote what my brain NEEDED to write, what it WANTED to write.

Hopefully I learned a lesson from this, to just go with the flow, and to stop psyching myself out, and to just write what is in me to write. Maybe it'll be well received. Maybe it won't. But it'll be mine and it'll what I wanted and it'll be what I like.

I can only hope you like, too.



New Stand Alone Releasing May 2nd

Cover Reveal March 15th

Contemporary Romance

Full Length Novel, 80,000+ words

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...