I was tagged by Laura Chapman to reveal 7 things you may not (or may) know about me as a writer. Since she did this, I told her it would double as my blog post, so I am sharing it here too. This was a fun challenge to try and come up with seven things people don’t know about me:
- All of my current works-in-progress were generated by very vivid dreams that wouldn’t get out of my head until I wrote them.
- I write in several genres: fantasy, romance, paranormal romance, sci-fi and, most recently, comic/picture books. I have determined I cannot write historical fiction because I’m far too much of a history buff to write it.
- Most of my novels have the middle chapters written first and have chapters written here and there without a beginning in mind. Only two of my novels started out with the prologue and first few chapters written first. Even here, the first few chapters were written then chapters down the road were written and other chapters I have yet to figure out where they go.
- I am not an out liner. I can’t imagine outlining a story that writes itself as it goes. Thus, totally a pants-er.
- I have always been very shy about sharing my writing. Only in the last year have I started sharing my works in progress and competing in contests. This has helped me to become more confident and decide that I will find an agent and get published sooner rather than later.
- I tend to overthink when I can’t figure out how to connect the dots in a story. This often leads to chapters I trash and start over with and rewrite much better.
- I have a bunch of partial stories written because I had inspiration, but I have no idea where they’re going after the short story part of it is written.
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