It's been a problem for me of late, or has it? I'm still trying to come to a decision on that one and thought it might be an idea to talk things through here.
I guess a good writer has to be able to write on a whole range of subjects and I'm still looking for a voice I can truly call my own. Maybe Falmouth will solve my dilemma, maybe it won't, but at the very least I think it'll teach me to focus more precisely on what I'm trying to achieve.
Now I read that last sentence again, I realise it didn't end up saying what I thought I wanted to say. So why don't I change it? Because in reading it again, I realised that what I THOUGHT I wanted to say was actually b*ll***t. See? There I go again, writing angry. Let me explain.
I think I've been writing on too many fronts for too long. I'm still telling myself that I'm honing my skills, practising the craft if you like and never quite daring to think F**K IT - I'm going to concentrate on writing 'Horror', or 'Chick Lit', or (gasp) 'Pornography' for the next six months, just to see what comes out at the end. Maybe that's what I should be looking for, a focus.
I'm naturally lazy. For every ten reasons I have for doing a project, I can find eleven reasons for not doing it, and probably a lot more than that if I really put my mind to it. Actually I'm doing one of them now - writing a blog. Think I'd better go, the sun's shining and an hour or so in the garden would be a nice break... see what I mean?
Only the blessed or the well connected seem to get published these days. I'm neither, my only hope is to work hard at the job, and that's what I do... at least it will be once I've done the washing up, and vacuumed, and mowed the lawn and...
Chris
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Well, I finally found you!I've read last months' posts too so I'm up to speed. Congrats on getting accepted, though I think you're mad! Seriously though, if this will help you focus then that's great. Nice part of the country too - though not as lovely as Yorkshire. Can't quite see your house from mine but if we moved a couple of hills!
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I find it hard to be distracted from my writing now. Even other half breaking a bottle of red wine over beige carpet barely interrupted my chaper. Though he'll pay!!! Big time.
Hi Barbara, great to hear from you again. This is the point at which I turn round and whisper 'published author' at the crowds thronging my site. Along with Carol Anne, that makes two, so I'm in the right company.
ReplyDeleteHow long before the next one comes out?
Chris
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteJust go with the flow! Experiment and explore. I'm sure that Falmouth will help where focus and direction are concerned.
Hi Chris - well I had one come out last week with Ellora's Cave - Anna in the Middle - the next is in May - Power of Love. They took everything I'd written apart from the suspense stories and the one of those that I submitted to them, they will take if the agent they persuaded me to approach, doesn't want to represent me. This is a case of doors opening once one has!! The agent is a big one in New York and he asked to read the whole manuscript after he'd had the first three chapters. No sex in that story so it shows that I can write without it!! Ha ha. Now that could be taken in entirely the wrong way.
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