I have manuscripts in various stages of completion in everything from contemporary romance to chick lit to YA fantasy. I discovered a few things during that endeavor: 1-I had a lot to learn about writing. I could tell by the shocked look on her face that she hadn't realized I'd taken her off-hand suggestion seriously. After months and months of reading about writing, fleshing out a plot idea, working on characters, and trying my hand at writing a novel, I presented my mom with a bound copy of my first completed manuscript. "Why don't you try writing your own?" she suggested.Īt first the idea seemed ridiculous, but it wouldn't leave my mind. My mom pulled out one of those motherly-nuggets-of-wisdom for which moms are so well known. I'm pretty sure I didn't stop for breath for at least 15 minutes. I was at my mother's house one day talking about books and I went off on one of my rants about the frustrating lack of good, quality, morally-sound romance novels available. (But that's a whole blog post in and of itself.)įast forward many, many years. Even compared to writers, I'm strange-and that's saying something.Īs a child, I never answered the "What do you want to be when you grow up?" question with "An historical romance novelist." In fact-now brace yourself-I didn't even like to read. Most authors would answer that question with something along the lines of "I have always wanted to be a writer." Guess what? I'm not most writers.
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