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If a painting in the home of your perfect man reflects your dreams of doom, do you run, or do you dare to embrace love?
While Lizetta lives a life of compassion, childhood bullying over a few extra pounds have caused this sparky woman to lose sight of the beauty of her soul. Jensen’s recent past is filled with substance abuse, shady morals, and loose women. A brutal wake up call forced him to find his way back to the gentle soul he once was; however, there are some whose futures depend on the return of the demon.
Souls can heal, but how long can they fight the forces that seek to destroy them? If one of those forces is the person who shattered your self-image, and she is determined to take down the one you love, could you still believe that everyone deserves a second chance?
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~GUEST POST BY DIANE RINELLA~
The Critical (yet it doesn’t mean squat) First Draft.
a.k.a. Simple advice for those who wish to write.
By Diane Rinella
How can something be important yet not mean much? If you have
ever written a book, you totally understand the title of this piece.
When I started writing Something
To Dream On, I knew where I wanted it to end up, but how to get there was
elusive. No matter what I wrote, it sounded wrong, lame, and just plain
horrible.
First drafts are the hardest, most intimidating part of
writing. Frankly, anyone who thinks books are cranked out beautifully on the
first try has watched too many episodes of Castle.
Writers struggle. Let me tell ya, getting that first draft out is a killer!
Sometimes you struggle from the beginning. Other times the story flows and all
is great until you smack into a brick wall coated in Crazy Glue and get stuck.
Seriously, I’ve had thirty-three thousand words fly out in a few days before I
shut down and could not pound out another word for weeks.
Why does this happen? It is because we all hit a point where
what we are writing “sounds stupid” to us. Sometimes that feeling hits a few
chapters in. Other times it hits during the opening sentence. Just know that it
is going to hit and you have to ignore the inner voice that tells you that what
you are writing is rubbish. The writing isn’t bad; it is unpolished. Writing is
like taking a big lot of rock hard dirt and deciding to plant a garden. First
you have to shovel in a whole bunch of nutrients and manure, and then you start
planting and watering. Growing concepts from the seeds in your mind and helping
them to flourish takes nurturing.
Think of the first draft as bringing in the dirt. Then plant
all the seeds that will add mystery and intrigue. Let everything sprout and
grow (the second draft), and then come in with some clippers and start shaping
the bushes and pulling the weeds (the third draft.) Just like any beautiful
garden, writing takes time. It’s hard not to give up when your words do not
meet your expectations, but remember that much like manure, first drafts stink.
Focus on getting the words down, develop the basic story, and then add all the
things that will make it beautiful.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Enjoying San Francisco as a backdrop, the ghosts in Diane’s 150-year old Victorian home augment the chorus in her head. With insomnia as their catalyst, these voices have become multifarious characters that haunt her well into the sun’s crowning hours, refusing to let go until they have manipulated her into succumbing to their whims. Her experiences as an actress, business owner, artisan cake designer, software project manager, Internet radio disc jockey, vintage rock n’ roll journalist/fan girl, and lover of dark and quirky personalities influence her idiosyncratic writing.
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