Still Waiting

Ok so I wonder if publishers make us writers wait to make us crazy. I am working on just being patient, but believe me it's hard not to just figure they either didn't get the manuscript, or they lost it. The thing is I know I'm a good writer and I know that this is what I'm suppose to do. And I've always believed that if I could just get someone to read my work then they would want to publish the work, the trick was just to get someone to read it. And now that they are it's hard to wait to hear back from them. Wish someone would call soon. I will give them until the middle of Jan and then I will call them. Wow! I will continue to pray and that I will get that call no matter which way they go. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

How many views.

So I posted my book trailer on youtube and then I started sending it out to all the friends I have on fb and so far it has 51 views. Cool, this is such a cool way to get people interested in the book. And I have my 17 year old to thank for it she is the one who showed it to me. She is very cool with my writing she likes the idea that I am a writer as she is such a avid reader. we are like to peas in a pod.

My Book Trailer

what do you do?

What do you do when you have a brain fart? sometimes I sit down and write and can't think of what to put on the page. It's very annoying because writing usually comes very easy to me. I don't like it when I have to struggle with the words to use. Use a prompt. have someome give you the first line of the story and go from there. It works I promise. Try it sometime.

Ego Ecstasy

"Nothing is better than having your first book published. You may want to believe that spouses, friends, children and world peace are more important, but when you see your name and words in print it is nothing short of ego ecstasy." Deborah Lavine Herman

This quote is so true. writing is like chocolate to me. I can't live without it.

Next book I'm reading.

So I started reading the Count of Monte Cristo last week and am relly enljoying it. but still I cant seem to write anything really, a little here and there but that is the best I can do for now. I wonder if publishing houses realize how crazy they make us when they make us wait so long to hear anything.

I'm going nuts here.

Several times I think of new stories to write and then I read through what I wrote and don't like it. Then I deleate it and kick myself for it later. Crazy huh. I should keep everything I write, someday it may turn into either a short story or a book, ya just don't know really. I seem not to be able to write anything new right now, while I am still waiting for Avalon to call me. waiting is so hard, I want to call them, but I can't that was one of the things they said was not to call unless I hadn't heard from them in that 8 months. I just want to scream, but I am learning to be patient. Some days I try to do what ever I can to take my mind off of waiting. By the time I do get the call I may be to nuts to care.

Still Waiting

Still waiting for Avalon Books to call me.
Waiting is so hard but I am finding other
things to take my mind off of it. I just wish
they would call one way or the other.

Jane Eyre

So I just finished reading Jane Eyre, and all I can say is that it is an amazing book. The love story of Mr. Rochester and Jane is incrediable. Wow. I think every girl would love to be loved like that.
I much prefer this book to her sisters whuthering Heights which was so dark and disturctive. Whurthing Heights didn't give a lot of hope but Jane Eyre is filled with it. The relationship between the two is intriguing to me. I love the way they banter but always come back for more. And even though Rochester does something dispicticable trying to marry Jane when he was already married as you read it you don't see it that way you just see a broken down soul trying to have love and a little peace in his life. Love it and would recomend it for anyone to read.

my brain wont focus.

I can't write. I am still waiting to hear from Avalon Books and so my brain wont focus on writing anything right now. So I'm working on a quilt to take my mind off writing. Wow.

fiction is my drug

Writing is energizes me and relaxes me. I love coming up with new stories and ideas. And for me the characters come alive when I write about them. Sometimes they all feel so real and I get so into the story that it's hard not to just write all the time. I'd love to just have a little room somewhere all to myself that know one would come in and distrube my writing. and I'd all paper the wall with all my rejection letters. cool huh.

waiting is the hardest part.

The hardest part about writing is the waiting to hear back for all the companies you send a query letter too. I have over 57 rejections so far. When I reach 100 i will have a party. It took me two and a half years and most of those rejections to get my first novel published. I am saving them all so that someday when I have an office for writing in I can wallpaper the wall with my rejections. Funny huh. The famous painter Glen Wesman was the mentor to Thomas Kinkade and once told him to "paint the light." basiclly meaning find the light that moves you and paint that. I think that can be applied to writing as well. Write the light, or find what moves you and write that. Some of my favorite movies on TV are the hallmark channel movies about love. I find I write like those. Writing feeds my soul. pattyboatauthor@myemail.com

On a role again

A while ago I decided to write a book longhand. I usually write directly onto my computer. I just wanted to try and do it, and I filled up two notebooks. Now I am putting it onto the computer and am doing something I also have wanted to do for a while. I usually put numbers at the head of each chapter, I wanted to try and put chapter titles and am doing that right now it's kind of hard to do it that way because I have to find just a few words to discribe each individual chapter.
The coolest thing right now is that Avalon Books is at this time reading my next manuscript and in a few months I will get a call in the positive or negative. I hope it is the positive.


favorite quote: Those who care don't matter, Those who matter don't care. by: Dr. Suess

blocked

I have sat at the computer several times and tried to think of a new story. I am blocked. I have started several stories but I stop and don't finish. But at some time I will go back to one or the other and finish it. But for now I am focusing on publishing my next manuscript and it seems that I can't think about another story while I am working on this one. It has been requested and sent to a huge publishing house. I am keeping my fingers crossed but I am not trying to be excited yet until I hear from them. This manuscript is the first novel I actully completed and it is the one that when I get it published I will feel like I am a successful author. It is actully the first book in a four book family saga. And with it I sat at the computer one night with a name of the main character and an idea and just started writing and what ever came into my head ended up on the page. The characters in this book come alive to me when I work on them they are like my children, I don't know if anyone else feels that way about the stories they write. When this book gets published I will feel like I have made it. Well I guess that is for now.

I know it's been a long time

I know it's been awhile but I have been so busy making changes to my next manuscript after my editor wrote all over it. lol. She is so tough, but is wonderful and will make me a better writer. I finished that work and now have again began the process of looking for an agent or publisher. I will not use the same one I did for my first book. They don't really do any promoting unless I buy my own books. But I look at it that at least I got a book published. Now I just need to get people out there to buy it and spread the word to a friend each time. The more people how order the book and tell a friend it will get the word out there. Many things happen best by word of mouth. I like learning better ways to make myself understood. Oh I learned two new words yesterday.
1. juxtapose- two things side by side that don't really go together. (fire and ice etc. )
2. inured- toughened through expirence (hardened) I like learning new words some times I try to use them in my writing but I worry that other people like me won't understand them either.
new thought: I can put a list of different words and the deffinitions in the back of the book. Just an idea. I have decided to read 10 of the classics, I am strating with Wuthering Heights, my 17 year old is chosing the books for me off the 100 most recommended list for me and we have started a book club reading together. I know it's a good book when I want to read and don't want to put it down. But the characters make so so angry, there is a brute, a wimp, a spoild brat, and a wicked evil man. Only one character as overwhelming good qualities and she is telling the story. I believe everyone of these characters were written they way they were just to make the readers angry. But it is a good and well written story, keeps me interested. Can't wait for the next book to start hopefully she will chose something a little more up beat.

Reading this week

I've been reading this week and have decided something. To me a book is good if I don't want to put it down. And it doesn't have to do with the action necessarily. If a book holds my attention and interest then that is how I judge it to be a good book and good writing. I am reading Lord of the Rings Fellowship this week and don't want to put it down, I want to know what happens next. Although I've seen the movies I can't help it I am finding things out I didn't know before. I like that. I love to read and don't do it enough. But I love this book and think JRR Tolkien was a good writer. I hope that my own writing does that for other people it keeps them intrigued.

Finished the input.

Well tonight I finished putting the hand written book into the computer. Now I will read through it and make changes and add things to make it a little longer if I can. I have a tendency to write short books, I'd like to have a story keep going if I could. So far that's not the way they go though. Oh well. I'll keep trying.

saved it.

my husband and a friend were able to save my data and restore my laptop. I am thrilled now I can get back to work. It was hard to be without the use of my computer for almost a week.

getting a computer virus.

I do my work on my laptop and it got a virus Wednsday. I am so unhappy. If I don't buy the program to fix the virus I may lose everything. I think it is kind of mean for someone to do that to people just to sell their product. "Internet Security 2010" Don't do it. Hopefully the IT person at my husbands work can save my files and clean out the virus. I feel lost with out using my computer, it's weird huh. I really don't want to have to replace it everything is on there, I had planned to back up things and just hadn't got around to it yet. I've learned something now.

cleaning out the cobwebs.

sometimes my mind is just to busy to write. I try but just can't seem to get my thoughts to stay on task. So the writing is put on hold for a while, but then I can't seem to do anything else either because I want to be writing. I guess I just have to clear out my head with all the mess inside and sweep out the cobwebs. Shake it off and just do it.