Waiting

Frustration!!!! I'm waiting for feedback on my latest story. It's so hard to remember how busy everyone is when you are waiting. So today is a break/catchup day. Bills, thank you notes, which if I don't write soon, I will have no friends!! Deep sigh. There is nothing I would rather do right now is dive into another book. But life has to be taken care of first. I have thoughts about plots, and character developement stuff I need to jot down before I forget them. I should, at some point, talk a bit about the stories I am writing now. But really, I would be doing it to avoid the aforementioned bills and thank you notes. So the tip for the day, avoid procratination, cause the sooner the boring stuff is done, the sooner you can go have fun!!!

Lesson learned #1

So I learned an important lesson last week while rewriting a story I had written for a Paranormal Magazine. The lesson:  write for your audience. I wrote a short story about Twin Psychics and their Mom. It was a sweet story about accepting others and their different opinions. Then, I spoke with the Editor and he told me he wanted it dark. So I rewrote the story and made it much darker. It turned out to be much better when I kept my audience in mind while writing. Paranormal followers have a greater threshhold for the dark. Interestingly enough, I found that I couldn't really have written it differently because I needed the framework of the original story to build the new story upon.
I hope it gets published, its out of my hands now. I really liked these characters, I see them moving on with the story at some point. But I have to finish another story first. My Pride and Joy, my book about the not-so-famous Hero of the American Revolution, Jack Jouett.  A blog for another time....