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.