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I forgot I started this blog...

I know, sad but true. I am also not the sort of person who normally rants a whole hell of a lot in general. It's been two years since I wrote anything on this blog, and shockingly somehow it has accumulated 118 page views. What?! I am not sure how that happened. Still writing, still editing, still wondering if I am out of my ever-loving mind, that will never change. What I've really noticed over the past two years is that there are a lot of people more than willing to take your money while providing you with questionable services. You have people who claim they have the magic bullet, just follow these easy directions and you will have a novel that will get published/sell and so on. I call bullshit on all those people. The sheer number of self-help writing books that exist is staggering. The number of them who all say the same basic thing is also rather funny, I’ve run across a handful of actually useful books on the writing craft, but that is what happens with how-to boo...
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I aspire to be a writer. It’s a struggle. Finishing a novel can be a struggle all by itself, but then you have to convince someone else that the world you’ve created and the characters you’ve written about are going to be worth investing in. I understand how mainstream publishing works. It’s not about how well written the novel is. It is about how marketable the novel is. At the moment, vampires, werewolves, and all things paranormal are the hot ticket. It should make me happy. I write paranormals. It doesn’t, instead, it makes me annoyed, because now instead of having a few good paranormals to choose from there are hundreds if not thousands of really badly written stories just waiting to take readers away from good potential reads. I read paranormals. I used to read them a lot. Now though I am beginning to hate them. Maybe I should write another genre. I won't. I will continue to write paranormal novels because those are the sorts of characters that take residence inside my hea...
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Chapter 19

Well, I finished chapter 18. It was critiqued and now I need to finish chapter 19. I can't decide if I am writing with the idea that my reader has the same grasp on the language I do, or if they have the vocabulary of a 5th grader. I am meant to begin working on chapter 19. When chapter 18 finished, the heroine had driven a knife into the chest of the bad guy. Now the question becomes is that it? Is that enough to save herself and heal, or is stabbing him a bad idea, does it have consequences that were unforeseen. It’s a paranormal romance. Vampires and witches and magic unlike the real-world system of paganism and Wicca are being used. She’s a fairly powerful witch in her own right. I just have to figure out if and what kind of consequences, there are. Maybe stabbing him actually sets into motions a backlash from prior interactions, or her own power as a healer jumps into action and fixes the damage she created? The reason the fifth-grader question came up is often during cri...
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