Saturday, January 24, 2009

Quiet Concentration

Hear that quiet concentration? That’s Ann going over her manuscript one last time before handing it over to Rachael in production to assign to an editor. I love this! This is such an exciting time. One reason being because I have learned so much since my last go ‘round with editing, and have high expectations for the promotion and sales of this novel.

During this New Year, I will be applying all that I have learned since the release of my first novel, Weapons of Light, in May of ‘08, about promotion and sales, to both novels. I can hardly wait for the results. It’s not only the idea of “making money” but the thrill of seeing your hard work and love of the craft succeed.

I truly do love to write, and have started my third novel, a mystery set in the beautiful state of Alaska. Duh? I would be inspired to do Alaska; I suppose since the Lord gave me the gift of writing, he is using it to have me stretch my brain a bit to learn of the great and mysterious weather pattern state. I am very excited about this project, and each day am eager to get to it, to see what I’m going to write.

Honestly, the surprise is genuine. After wondering what my next story line or project was going to be for some time, (If you check my web sight for "works in progress" you will see that I already thought I had the agenda in control.) Ha! The muse had something else in mind. I woke up one morning about a month ago, with the whole story line start to finish The hard part? Filling in the pages between “Chapter One” and “The End.” It’s also the fulfilling and fun part for me, because I truly do not know what I’m going to write next.

I am thrilled and thankful for the gift of writing. Never a dull moment!

Write on!