Friday, October 4, 2013

Blogging Is Hard!

Lately, I've had trouble coming up with witty and wise blog posts.  I feel like I'm repeating myself, talking about the same topics over and over.  Blogging is hard!  So is writing.  The fact something is hard is not an excuse not to do it, or so I tell my children.  So, bear with me if I'm a bit off my game lately.

I'd gotten in a comfortable place with my writing and my blogging, following certain rules with each.  Write romantic fiction in third person POV and blogging once a week.  There are others but these seemed to be the main rules for each.  Lately, I've been exploring more with my writing and I think because of that, struggling with what to blog about.  I don't know the answers.  I don't yet know what works.  You, as my readers (if I have any<grin>), are going through this with me.  I would love it if someday I can look back on this documented process as a published writer and relive some of the things I went through.  I would also love it if along the way, I impart some hard won wisdom on others breaking into writing.

I seem to be tossing all my rules up in the air and seeing what form they take as they come back down.  Example, I recently wrote a first person POV novel.  I was amazed at how easy it seemed.  Probably the fastest writing I've ever done.  I put it aside for several months while I finished one of my more traditional manuscripts then went back to it this week.  I read it from start to finish and I loved it.  It felt so natural.  So, now I'm wondering what it all means.  Write everything in 1st POV?  Switch back and forth from novel to novel (is that even allowed)?  Put both finished products out on submission and see which one does the best?

I have no idea, but then again, I'm still learning;-).  So, dear readers, take this journey with me and see where it leads us.  Hopefully, down the path to professional writerdom.

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