...it's very hard to admit you're wrong, or were wrong. Maybe that's just true for me, but being the overly controlled OCD person I am--I find it hard to say--yeah, well--I made a mistake, I need to do a complete about turn and get it together.
I've had a bad year. *sigh*
But, I was cranking along on my series romance, thinking--for some reason, even though I've got the whole thing plotted and it's "coming", something is missing. That "spark", the little piece that says, okay--it's "mine", isn't there. It's sort of me-lite. So I was out cruising the web, looking--I dunno for what--and came across this site.
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...sort of like block-busting for the creative, time-management--whatever, it's in there. I haven't begun to scratch the surface. It's on my TBR list. Some people have books? I have sites. Joshua James recently indexed his writing posts, and I'm trying to read them all--it might take some time.
43 says if you're stuck in your wip and can't get going--just write the scene you really want, forget the order, forget everything else. Just write. And I did. And...it was nothing like a Harlequin.
It was raw, dark--and angsty. Voice is a truism. You can't run from your voice. Your voice is what makes you...you.
I spent a lot of time at Nationals chasing HAR. Not a waste--not really. I realized my focus has changed, not so much an assemble piece, but more h/h. I got myself unstuck, in itself worth the price of admission. And in my own, dark, angsty, messed up view of the world, I still want to save people one at a time. Maybe...just not for Harlequin.
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Where do you find the time? You are kind of dark and angsty, aren't you?
Jeanna--I am the Queen of Angst. If angst was a personality trait, I'd have so much personality it'd be coming out of my pores.
I only wish I were the Queen of lots of Serious-Money, but--angst is fine. :)
Raw, dark and angsty? Ah, now there's the Jodi I know. :)
Harlequin has done plenty of angsty, BTW. I haven't kept up with them in the last 2-3 years, but you might still fit in the IM line.
Um... you DO have personality coming out of your pores.
Welcome back :)
Thank you, Liana. :)
And Alice--I thought I was simply raw, tired and about to do laundry. But I like the alternate Jodi much better.
I've read a couple of those HQs included in your treasure trove from the conference, but didn't come across much angst. Of course, I'm still in my vampire phase--but not ala Ward, Hamilton or Viehl. More like Meyer. I love her TWILIGHT series characters. Still!
Maybe I'm supposed to be a YA author. And you know how I'm still trying to find my voice, right? I'm still trying to figure it out and taking turns feeling offended, cheated and like a failure (because I mostly think and don't WRITE). So that's where's my head's been, and man it stinks.
I could never write for HQ. I can barely write for myself.
Laundry, angst... there could be a relationship. :)
Is the Angst Queen a super hero? Shouldn't it be?
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