As a writer or I should say as an unpublished, aspiring writer, I must work a 9-5 job. Well, I don’t really work 9-5 and I work part-time and I prefer working nights, because I really hate getting up early and I am a night owl or maybe I’m part vampire. Anyhoo, I’ve been working a lot at my paying job where I work at a hospital. Why a hospital, because they have night hours and at all different times at night. Plus, it’s where I was able to find a job.
Oh and I’ve been working temporary jobs at the hospital. Well, I was working one temp assignment and it was about to end and I got another one. This happened right around the time I was editing the hell out of my finished book. I was getting my query letter together and that is ready to go. I’m thinking I’m ready to find a literary agent. Oh wait, what the hell is an outline and a synopsis that some of these literary agents are asking for? Shit, now I have to write a five page synopsis and a 20 page outline of my book. Did I already curse and use several curse words?
So here I am I think it’s been six weeks struggling and avoiding the synopsis and outline that I’ve completed a rough draft of. I really don’t know if I’ve done the outline correctly. The synopsis I don’t find as difficult, but I’ve been fretting over the outline for the past six weeks. Any published writers out there that have advice on writing an outline or want to send me samples I’ll gladly love the advice and samples. I searched the internet for outline samples and came up with nada.
I thought editing the book was hard, but I’m finding writing the outline to be a nightmare. I’ll probably start dreaming about it.
But the plus side to writing my own book, I’ve been reading a ton of books. I use to read a lot as a kid, but after I hit my teens and definitely in college I didn’t read that much. I would read a book here and there and the same authors, James Patterson, John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell and sometimes Tami Hoag. Then I discovered Jaid Black, she writes a mixture of romance and erotica that is called Romantica. I saw her on the Montel Williams show and was instantly curious so I bought one of her books immediately. And Vikings never sounded sexier and the um...sex in the book…um… arousing.
Now, I’m obsessed with Gena Showalter’s and Michelle Rowan’s books. At first, I read all the Lords of the Underworld books by Showalter. I wasn’t really interested in her other books, because well they didn’t have Aeron, Paris, Strider, Gideon, Maddox, Reyes, Cameo, Lucien, Torin, Sabin, Kane, and Baden in them. The Lords are demon-possessed, but oh so appealing on the page. Well, I had “Catch a Mate” sitting here for the longest time and I finished “The Darkest Lie,” which I loved and was sad when I finished it, because the next Lord book doesn’t come out until the spring of 2011. Man, that’s a long time to wait at least for me.
I was jonesing for some more Showalter so I started reading “Catch a Mate.” Fell in love with Marcus after I read he had an English accent. I might leave my husband for a man with an English accent (No, I’m kidding), but my fantasy man is a dark-haired, blue, green or hazel eye, muscle bound guy with an English or Aussie accent. Yes, a character with these attributes will show up in one of my books, because he’s my fantasy. I don’t know of any Hollywood actor that fits that description, but if you’ve read any of the Lord books, Gideon sounds like the kind of guy I would drool over. Oh, I think he has a Hungarian accent, does he?
Oh, back to “Catch a Mate,” after reading this book I am now awaiting the rest of Showalter’s books. And Michelle Rowen’s books. Her Immortality Bites series I read twice. Thierry is the type of guy or should I call him vampire since that is what he is in the book that would catch my interest.
For a person, who did not read romance books, I’m hooked now. The sex in Showalter’s books, um how do I say this and keep it PG? Well, let’s just say my husband reaps the benefits of me reading her books.
Okay, this officially stopped being a blog now that it has exceeded the word count where I try to stay under a page. It’s close to 800 words and I think blogs should be short and sweet. Now, as I wrap this blog up, I’m asking myself what was the point of this blog. It started as a rant about my difficulties of writing an outline and synopsis. I guess I needed to get some things off of my brain and down on cyber paper. (smile)
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