Anyway - so I have the choice, I can either stay up super late and write, or I can not write, or I can try to balance everything.... and I do it all..... there are days - a lot of them - that I just don't write. Some that I try to balance everything... and some that I'm up until who knows when...
The book is slowly coming along but I am getting impatient!
This particular book I started back in high school, like a few others. I didn't seriously start working on it, though, until last year.
It's not my baby, McM, I remember being 13, sitting in this spectacular house amazed by it. I sat in the nursery with my best friend from high school ... and the ideas were just flowing .. this history of the book was forming, triplet girls born each generation... curse....triplets disappear ...why? ... curse... and sitting there for 3 hours.... I didn't want to leave, EVER.
On the way home, I wrote it all out, my best friend and I talked and ironed it out. It was always my baby. It is a series ... I'm half way through book 2. I've been working on it since I was 13, really writing it since Cal was a couple years old... finally got a first chapter that I didn't want to throw into the fire. I have a huge family tree. Then I have my "break" stories. The one I would work on when I needed a break from that book.... but..... now, I haven't touched that book in years. I always said, I wasn't going to get the first one published until I had the second one done.
Dennis has been encouraging me to try to get it published.
I write for me, first and for most. I write for a couple of friends who take the time to read it and encourage me, telling me that want more (sometimes down right demanding it) ... I don't really have hopes of becoming a best seller.... it would be nice if it happened, but .... I don't count on it.
I'm just not sure, if I want to go through the heartache of trying to get published. People saying no would be like saying "your book sucks" ......
So I decided, I think this book, Kidnappers Cove, will be the one that I first try to publish... then maybe, maybe .... I'll try for my baby.... but I would like to have a little back up ... cuz again, I don't write fast...
I started really getting into it last February..... so in a year, I have written 139 pages (of this book) ... and 46,439 words.......... yep....... that's it.... ::sigh:: I just started page 8 of Chapter 12....
There is a love triangle.... and one of my BFF's thinks I should just drown them both, then she marries the doctor who takes care of her when she's rushed into the ER........... hummmmmm
