I finally decided on a title and even created a craptastic cover, because the more I think about it, the more I realize that I'm going to self publish. Thank you amazon for making that possible!
I still have editing to do on the book, but it's coming along quite nicely. I'm super excited about it.
The book is called 'Burning Roanoke'. I intend to have it out by Summer of 2012.
Here is what I've been doing to procrastinate editing: :D
This photograph was taken by me and edited by me using Photoshop elements. Please do not use this image for distribution without asking me first. This image is not for sale, it is mine, amongst my family photos, for my day at the beach. Thank you! :)
I finally finished writing my book. It's a bit weird actually finishing it. I never would have thought I could ever get to this point. I have appointed myself the Queen of not being able to finish anything. Though, of course, I still have lots of work to do on it.
For one, I have to get my confidence in myself boosted enough to actually be able to either publish it myself or find an agent. Getting myself out there is not an easy thing for me to do. I like to keep to myself, I feel more comfortable that way.
Another thing I need to do is go through the entire manuscript and edit it. There are so many details that have to be fixed so the story makes sense and flows together.
In many ways I am super excited, but at the same time, this whole process scares me. I keep wondering, what if everyone hates it? What if I built it up so much and then completely ruined the ending? I tell you, I am seriously my own worst enemy.
Only time will tell how interesting others find it. That is if they choose to read it. It's about getting it out there so people hear about it.
Which brings me to my last thing I need to do, which is actually HUGE. I need to figure out what I'm going to call it. Maybe that way I can actually post the name of it up here and then give a little excerpt. Once it's edited of course. ;)
Yup, it's amazing. I am actually making another post. And this
time... I'm going to tell you about what I am currently working on. I'm
super nervous about sharing this with the world and I in no way want to
build it up and end up disappointing many people. Though it's not like
I really expect people to actually read this.
So while
I will not tell you a title (I am still working on it.). I can give
you a bit on what it's about. It's basically a historical fiction
book. But with my own twist. It's not contemporary and I am sure some
will dislike it (I've learned you can't please everybody) though
hopefully more people will like it. Since I have not searched for an
agent yet, I have no deadline to finish. Good for me, because I could
not do a deadline. I have two children and one still wears diapers and
has me chasing her around a good deal of the day.
Back
to the book, because I am going off track. My Protagonists name is
Eloise Bradley. She's eighteen years old. The year is the late
1580's. About 1585-1586. It's right before the witch trials really hit
it off and before there was an official colony established in the
America's. If you see where I am going with this, great! If not, you
will have to wait to read. :) I will reveal more at a later time and
even put a small excerpt from my book.
But for now,
understand why I am not doing too much sharing. It's not easy for me to
keep it to myself. I would love to tell you all about it, but I want
you to read it when I finish it and it gets published (either by myself
or a publisher, I am not ashamed to publish my own book. Sometimes
that's how you have to get noticed). I call my sister in law and tell
her all about it, sending her what I've written. Surprises are not my
strong suit. I even tell my friend Lyn everything before she's had a
chance to read it.
I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day! And as an added treat below are a lists of some of my Characters:
Eloise Bradley
Seth Hastings
Ezra Mayes
Olivia Bradley
Frank Doyle
So first before we get to the topic I would like to say and point out. DAY TWO and I'm writing a post. Miraculous. I never gave my personal blog this much attention. It's feeling neglected, I tried deleting it, but it's still there. Staring at me and making me feel guilty that I still haven't dropped by to say hello. Does that mean I'm going to? Probably not. One blog to post in is enough.
Okay now onto why I'm blogging. Normally I would tell myself that no one really cares about my troubles. But I've decided that I'm sharing this because well I want to know that I'm not alone. So why am I not writing? Well I'll tell you. Because I'm a enormous blonde and I'm furious with myself.
I've written 11 chapters 30,000 words and they were all saved. To my laptop. The last time I logged into it was Saturday night, after the kids were all tucked into bed. Everything was perfectly fine. Then Monday morning, the screen wouldn't pop up. I panicked. If I could draw, I'd draw you a picture of how it went, but the artistic skills in my family skipped me and hit all three of my brothers instead.
I turned on the desktop and thought I'll outsmart you laptop! You cannot beat me! So I went through the network and nothing! I couldn't find it anywhere. I went through the husbands files, my files, the public files. NADA! Then I called the husband at work.
Now so you know. The husband is in surgery half the time when I call. Generally I text him to let him know the dramas I tend to get myself into. Like the time that I accidentally downloaded a virus to the desk top, because a link popped up begging me to click on it, though unbeknownst to me at the time the internet had tricked me into believing my computer was unprotected from viruses and I needed an anti virus. Warning: DO NOT BELIEVE THAT LINK! Basically I killed the desktop that day. Good thing the husband knows me well enough to put all the important information, like all our pictures, onto a back up hard drive. It's pointless to say it's not the first time I've given the desk top a virus. Hopefully it will be the last. :D
Back on track. So I call him at work and before he can ask me what I did this time, I make sure he knows that I am in no way at fault, because it was working perfectly fine on Saturday night. The husband kindly informs me he'll have a look at it and see if he can fix it when he gets home. Later that night when he gets home that night and it turns out the video card died. So I'm laptopless and storyless. I have the seven chapters I sent to my sister-in-law, but I really don't want to rewrite four chapters.
The solution to this is that the husband has bought a case for the laptop hard drive and hopefully it will be here tomorrow so I can get everything off. If not, I'll be rewriting that. In the meantime, I'll have to occupy my time in some other way*.
I'm terribly sorry that you have actually read all that. So because I feel bad that you've had to listen to me and my horrible blondeness here is a youtube video I thought rocked!
*You can see that I've spent that time looking at youtube
This is my attempt to bring myself out into the world. I'm a friendly person, but introverted (don't ask my friends and family, they'll call me a liar). When I say introverted, I mean that when I don't know someone I get a sort of stage fright. I get nervous and end up sounding like a complete idiot, which once you know me well, you realize that I am a complete idiot. So where I read your blogs and I attempt many times to think of a clever comment, the post button rarely gets clicked. Just ask facebook, he's read many of my unsent messages.
I have blogged before, but be ye warned, I am the worst blogger in the universe. Actually I really don't like writing about myself in general, you can ask my many many blank journals and diaries that I have collected and trashed over the years. But I started a blog when my parents demanded pictures and I was too lazy to try and fight with e-mail to send them. Then I got too tired to fight with blogger on uploading them, so I found an alternative and stopped with the blogs. I doubt anyone looked at it anyway, so it was no major loss to the internet.
I do love writing though. For me it's a ton of fun to enter into a world where there are no laws of physics. Anything can happen. When I feel down, I like to enter into my perfect world. Now when I say perfect, I just mean that I control the results.
So with my first post, I will say, one day I will figure out how to improve the way my page looks. For now, revel in the fact that I'm actually blogging. Let's see how well I can keep it up.
