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

Book reviews, promoting and marketing strategies!

My head is in a fuddle right now, from writing a book and getting the publisher deal its been hectic with editing, learning to blog, remembering my twitter password!, organizing Facebook accounts, creating official pages etc. etc.

I was not cut out for this kind of thing and seriously it is taking it’s toll, my hair is un-brushed, I have been in my dressing gown all day, I was so tired when I woke up this morning I barely even had a chance to glance in the mirror before it was time to collect school uniforms and walk out of the door. And of course when my hand touched that handle ready to go my youngest peaked out from her buggie and said in the most beautiful voice ever ‘Mummy… baby pooey.’ and sure enough, she needed changing. Frustrated and tired doesn’t even describe how I feel all the time!

Want to know what else I feel? Absolute pride in myself for accomplishing my dream and fighting through the hard times. I used to say I had writer’s block when I picked up a pen and quickly put the entire project to one side, now I know I just wasn’t strong enough then to knock the wall down that hid the path in front of me. Now it’s down, and I smell roses! (When my daughter isn’t in the room anyway!)

My point here is guys that we all have dreams and although some people will try to put you down and say you are aiming to high you are the only person that can prove them wrong. I am standing tall, proving myself right and everyone that doubted me wrong and when I finally reach my finish line I will dive over it crying tears of joy and screaming ‘oh it was easy really!’.

How about you? how will you make it to you’r finish line? or will you just watch someone else take the self satisfaction from you as you whisper ‘it’s OK because their ankles look fat!’. 

GO GET YOUR HAPPY ENDING!!

Randomn thoughts of a tired woman

So here i lay in bed after a tiring few hours reading editors comments on my manuscript and seeing ‘this sentence seems out of place, is there some text missing?’ And thinking about the fact that i re-wrote it awhile back. I knew some parts wouldnt make sense becuase after going over and over the manuscript for my fiction book it started looking more like a recipe book or something! I am very happy to make these changes dont get me wrong, this is NOT a negative post.
My point is while getting frustrated with myself for doing so much ‘wrong’ i also stumbled across a mistake THEY made. It reminded me that it doesnt matter what qualifications we have or how good we are at something, we will still get it wrong sometimes and that is nothing to be ashamed of.
While thinking to myself about my work ‘i bet who ever edited this for me thinks im a real ditz!’ I found i picked up on mistakes and didnt think anything bad of them.
I think we put ourselves down more worrying what other people will think, and that goes for everything not just writing. I want to scream it from the roof tops that im a success! But it doesnt stop me from making mistakes, it never will. I wouldnt want to stop making mistakes.
I guess what i am trying to say is stop worrying so much, the worst critique you NEED to impress… Is you. 🙂

Well thats enough nonsense rambling for one night lol