Blogging is hard!

So i haven’t blogged in quite a while, sorry about that. Two reasons, firstly iv been swamped with work, everything from interviews and articles to chicken poxy children and summer hollidays! Yes. Its been hell in my home. And secondly, because blogging is hard!
I must have opened the application on my phone hundreds of times and my mind has gone completely blank. I could tell you what i did today? Ok here goes, i woke up, got out of bed, got washed and went to play with my kids. Whats that? You dont want to know what pictures my kids drew for me in what colour while telling me all about how they are going to be astronaut vets? Good, cos i have no idea what those scribbles are!
I could tell you about my new book? Ok then iv had a fantastic idea for a new book involving vampires and mermaids. I had the entire rough story within 24 hours and within one week i am ten thousand words into my first rough draft. But i dont want to tell you too much about that, except its a lot more adult which my first book Awake Again was before editing!
So… That pretty much leaves nothing else. And after pondering this issue for so long and eventualy thinking “i HAVE GOT TO post something NOW!” I decided to post about how hard it is to find something to post about! When i decided to go for it and get my book published i think somewhere deep inside i just assumed my life would magically change. But guess what, i still have mouldy toast inbetween my sofa cushions and my kids still throw up on me. Seriously??? Grass greener? This was NOT suposed to happen lol.

My point is i followed my dream and even though it might not have worked exactly as i wanted it to… Im no worse off 🙂 and thats always a bonus in my book! No pun intended

Do you ever just sit and wonder about the world?

I do, I am definatly one to sit and lose myself in thought. But I think that is part of what makes me a writer. I mean my book might not be any good, it might not sell at all! But it is just a learning curve after all. I am determined to write books that people like and in my first attempt I take everything that I personally don’t like about books and change it. But… what I don’t like is probably what others like most. So as I say it’s a learning curve. Though my book will be short it is less detailed allowing the reader to imagine things however they like to!

But as I say others might like to have MORE details, I will find out when I get feedback. I also wonder about other types of books, and hope to write children’s books, teen fiction books, adult books and even comedy books! (I have my first comedy idea already).

So do you ever sit back and wonder about things? How was this drink in my hand created? Just how was that children’s playhouse built? I wonder if you could freeze jelly? Why is my sunburn tingles more in cold water than hot water? If everything has to have an end then where does space end, and what is beyond that, and surely THAT space has to end….? What if this universe we live in is really a cell for some gigantic creature? What if the sun explodes? What if I take this ice cube and add something fizzy to it? The world really is like a giant playground, so why am I so bored all of the time?!

I guess I am just deep in thought tonight but I have to say that everything out there is definatly worth a try, well…. Maybe not EVERYTHING! (cringes at some of the fetish’s known) I keep getting asked “What if you get bad feedback from the book? Won’t that upset you after all of the work you put in?” and my answer is this. Honestly. No it won’t, because the negative feedback is nothing but a lesson learnt, and we could all do with more of those when following our dreams! So if you read my book and you don’t like it, feel free to stop by on my facebook page (at the side of this blog) and say “hey, I didn’t like having to think up the characters descriptions / the way it rushed through it / the ending was predictable. Maybe next time jazz it up a bit.” Because at the end of the day, how can I teach my children to follow their hearts and take all the advice they can if I don’t do the same?

Thank you for reading yet another randomn thought of mine, and I am sorry to have bored you with it. J Its how the mind of a loner writer works sometimes ^_^  

I would love to write a book but…

The amount of friends that say to me “I would love to write a book but…” is unreal. The truth is it doesn’t take a genius to write a book. I left school with hardly any qualifications, and i have three children the youngest of whom is disabled. There have been hard times and it has been hard work but I have managed it. If I can do it anyone can do it! I can’t even explain how ready to burst I am with pride and excitement. If you really want to write a book then forget about whatever you’r but… is and get on with it! enjoy it, have fun with it, don’t worry and don’t stress about it just enjoy the feeling of you’r fingers gliding on the keyboard as you make you’r own story. I used to have a but… and now here i am doing my absolute best to help others accomplish what they think they can’t.