The waiting is over!

We have decided to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and our new adventure is going to begin this week.
More to come after our plans are in place.

A Cure for The Waiting Game

The best cure for the waiting game [waiting for a publisher to pass judgment on your work] is to keep writing, getting back into the groove with novel #3 and getting excited. There really is nothing better than making life complicated for a character. When you have no control over one thing, seize control over the things that you do.
I think there is a lesson somewhere in there.

The Waiting Game

Book number two [written with my co-author] is with a publisher right now.
Now begins the time of waiting, hoping, wishing, dreaming, praying. All the while knowing that it could end in nought and the process will start all over again. But I have faith. The book is a good one, the characters are multi-dimensional and the story is timely.

Unstuck

My co-author and I have been going round and round with the plot to our new book and getting no where. Then I decided to think outside the box. I changed the locale of the book and all of a sudden things started to click. Plots emerged where they hadn't been before. Back stories started to make sense. It's amazing how by just looking at something from a different angle can make all the difference.

It never hurts to learn something new

In my never ending quest to write the perfect novel [is there really such a thing?], I am now taking an e-course to get me through both novels I am currently writing.
The course is going to focus on the first three chapters, and especially the first three pages, where it's a must to hook the reader - and an editor/agent/publisher.
Subsequent courses are going to focus on other aspects, such as subplots and pacing. While some of the information really isn't new, it never hurts to go over important aspects of the novel to fine tune. I find just the idea of discussing writing to be very motivating and energizing. I highly recommend taking a course like this whenever you feel stuck in your writing.