Falling out of Love

Its the same with every book that I write, I get approximately half way through and hit a brick wall. People tell me its writers block but its not. I know whats to come next its just that I fall out of love with the characters and the storyline.

I think it's because it takes so long to develop characters, a feasable storyline, then start to write it all down that at some point it is inevitable that we just need a break from them. I try to do something else for a few days, anything, something but this time that urge to write the next bit hasnt come back, so I am trying something different - starting something new, rather than working on an idea thats been in my mind for a while. Maybe that will help.

I will come back to the books that are half written or half edited thats for sure, Ive done that all through my writing career. If it takes a week, a month, till next year so be it.

Maybe its more of a mental issue. I am a writer that needs things around them to be right. The house needs to be tidyish, no daily jobs outstanding and I need to be in a fairly good, stress free mood especially when I am trying to craft a romantic book. If not in the right place it shows in my word selection and then costs me more time in the editing process. I dont need quiet, far from it but I doo need to feel right. In the end who knows its just how I work I guess...

BTW Wow how cool does that sound - writing career! But its true, more than one book - thats a career. For me the most important thing is that I am writing, creating something, carefully crafting a story that I will like and if others like it, great.

Woo hoo

Seven weeks ago I decided to experiment with a new strategy when it came to getting my work out into the big bad world. I made ond of my books free. Now its free on Apple IBooks, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords and all its affiliate sites. The only one its not free on is Amazon, no matter how much I tell them its free on other sites they are reluctant to price match it. I assume they will do it eventually its just frustrating that their wheels turn at a snails pace.

Anyway.... Today I looked over the sales reports and to my surprise Ive "Sold" - given away 1700 copies of "Another Chance at Love" in the past 7 weeks with little or no marketing other than my facebook page, Twitter, and this blog. Thats astonishing and it continues to get downloads every day which to me is another surprise.

On top of that Ive got a handful of good reviews, some great and thats another big bonus. I will be forever grateful to the readers who not only read the book but left a review, that is an awesome thing to do and not many do.

The other great thing is that after a week from hell away from writing, its that it gives me belief, pushes me on and I hope that I can use that incentive to push forward and finish the next books.

I thank everyone who downloads the book, reads it and hopefully some will really like it LOL

xx

Moving Forward

A few years ago I wrote a book about my favourite west end show "We Will Rock You" following two friends around Europe as they watched it in as many European cities as tbey could in a three week period, cullminating in a last performance at the Dominion Theatre in London. Last night that run of shows, in that theatre came to an end.

One can only hope that at somepoint they decide to give it another outing and do a last UK tour or something similar, I know I'd go again even after already going 6 times.

This morning I realised something - the show isn't over, its just postponed for a while a bit like the follow up story I always planned. I could never quite hammer the plot home, never settle on exactly what I wanted it to be, where to set it and even if there should be another Queen / WWRY link.

I've run into hitches all the way with the follow up, even down to the characters. They are based on two real life people, best friends - or at least they used to be. I guess you could say that they are also postponed at the moment LOL

Any ideas are stored in a folder, labeled appropriately as FBG2 but I fear its a folder that may never be opened. I have many folders and I guess some of them look better at the moment. I hope much like my hopes that the show will come back at some point, that the friendship might move forward on some level and my ideas for the story might spring into life - I doubt it but you always gotta have hope.

Maybe one day I will read the original book and be in a place, mentally and spiritually to figure out where the follow up goes or if it should stop as it has.

Whatever the ending, last nights was awesome !