One Page At A Time

One Page At A Time.

Hi,
     It's been a while between posts, I'm sorry for that. Lots has happened in the life of Mel lately, including moving house and catching the retched flu. But all is well now, and I have been working on Treasured Land. I didn't get as much time as hoped to promote my new release, A Love of Conviction, so with the very little I do with it (and I believe it deserve a whole lot more love then I am showing it), I am going to let this book do its thing while I concentrate on the next.

Getting a book publish ready, for any author is quite a trial, one that I am still learning to navigate even with two books out. First, we need to write the book. This can take a while for some of us. While I watch author after author release book after book (well so it seems), here am I still writing one. And while I did publish this year as well, I didn't write that book this year. A Love of Conviction took three to get ready.

So, what are some of the things which can stall an author from completing a manuscript as fast as others can? Well I can't speak for others, but I will say that the dreaded words, writers block gets tossed around quite a bit. I personally, don't believe in this. For me, it's more, that I don't want to write a particular scene, or I need to research something to complete a scene, or the thing I am most famous for, not having enough time to sit my butt in a chair, at my desk, to write, period.

Time for me is a hard one to juggle, raising five children from the ages of sixteen to four, is hard. Raising one is hard. So there is that; toss in a casual job, extracurricular activities, extended family, day to day living, a husband, and I have little time left for most things, let alone writing a novel. But like most people who want something badly enough, I make time.

I have been pondering over this blog, and what content I want to send out to the world, for a long time. There is a whole bunch of stuff out there telling authors how and why they should blog. I have thrown around a myriad of topics to share with whoever reads this, including, reviews, author do's and don'ts, to submit or not to submit, things like this. But today I actually met a lady at work, who loves to read blogs. She gave me some great insight on what she finds interesting in a blogger.
She told me it's the little, everyday things that keeps her coming back day after day to read what someone else is doing in their life.

After my conversation with her, my thoughts were again troubled because now I was faced with the dilemma of, how do I make my day to day life entwine with my struggles to write all these stories swimming in my head? Well, like I always say about my books, It's one page at a time. So that's what I will do. I am not a great photographer, nor the best writer, or have any idea what I am doing from day to day, but I do know this, I love to write, I love my family, and my days are full from sun up to sun down. That is it. So we will take it from there and see where it all leads. But for now, it is back to Chapter twenty two of, Treasured Land.

Make every day count,
Mel xx