Scarlett Cole
I once read that Nora Roberts said this (apologies to Nora if she didn't!):
"Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse', I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job."
That stuck with me, not the bitch-slap part, because I'm too Canadian for that. But the part about it being your job. In other jobs, you don't get a choice. If you work on the cash register at Target, you can't say, "I don't feel like ringing through customers today. I'm just not feeling it."
So I apply the same mentality to myself. I force myself to sit down and write. By doing this, I can usually find my way back to being inspired. It might take me a couple of thousand words that hit the edit room floor later, but it's better than writing nothing.
"Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse', I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job."
That stuck with me, not the bitch-slap part, because I'm too Canadian for that. But the part about it being your job. In other jobs, you don't get a choice. If you work on the cash register at Target, you can't say, "I don't feel like ringing through customers today. I'm just not feeling it."
So I apply the same mentality to myself. I force myself to sit down and write. By doing this, I can usually find my way back to being inspired. It might take me a couple of thousand words that hit the edit room floor later, but it's better than writing nothing.
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Dg
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Scarlett Cole:
Just finished the last of the Second Circle series and love every single one of these books. I see your next series will be on Preload but will you write anything on Eric? He was mention here and there throughout but nothing major on him to know about. It left me curious about him.
Maria
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Scarlett Cole:
Hi Scarlett! I discovered your Strongest Steel book sometime last year and fell in love with it!!! I loved it so much that I read it a few more times and I'm rereading it again before I start on Cujo & Drea's book =). Anyways, I wanted to know if you had an actual drawing/picture of Harper's tattoo? I try to get a visualization of her tattoo but I can't quite get it and this curiosity is killing me!!!
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