Whoo Hoo -- and Starting a Book
Eeek, I'm so LATE on this. I spaced it...really, I wrote a blog for the future, then forgot to load this one...I try to stay a little ahead or have at least one for emergencies.
Last week/this week has been the Out of the Blogsphere Tour for Heart Mate! and my own heart has been going a little pitty pat as I've seen the lovely comments by all these talented ladies on the book.
Ok. So when I sold HeartMate, Heart Choice was about at two chapters and no synopsis. I originally wrote the beginning of Heart Choice (previously **cringe** Heart Trail) just for a reader who'd read HeartMate and really identified with Mitchella, the heroine's friend. This lady had just given me a nice review for HeartMate and wanted to know about Mitchella's story. So I sat down the same evening and whipped out the first scene -- and then the lady said she'd forgotten she was reading on the computer until she came to the end and wanted more! Yes, of course I recall the email exchange...
Starting a Book: Actually, the scene I wrote for the above reviewer was when Straif meets Mitchella. Everything before that was added later. For those of you who write without outlines, just GO. First chapters can be hairy and rewritten several times to get the set up right. And when I originally wrote the scene, Straif came into Mitchella's shop. Then I decided this was too much like Danith walking into T'Ash's store in HeartMate and set up that Straif found Mitchella's shop closed and used his Flair to track Mitchella to the private club where she was brooding.
BTW, the choreography of the expanding 3-D business cards was h**lish to get right. I revised that bit A LOT.
Love to all, AND MANY THANKS TO THE LADIES OF OUT OF THE BLOGSPHERE FOR THE **PUSH** FOR HEART CHOICE.
Robin
Last week/this week has been the Out of the Blogsphere Tour for Heart Mate! and my own heart has been going a little pitty pat as I've seen the lovely comments by all these talented ladies on the book.
Ok. So when I sold HeartMate, Heart Choice was about at two chapters and no synopsis. I originally wrote the beginning of Heart Choice (previously **cringe** Heart Trail) just for a reader who'd read HeartMate and really identified with Mitchella, the heroine's friend. This lady had just given me a nice review for HeartMate and wanted to know about Mitchella's story. So I sat down the same evening and whipped out the first scene -- and then the lady said she'd forgotten she was reading on the computer until she came to the end and wanted more! Yes, of course I recall the email exchange...
Starting a Book: Actually, the scene I wrote for the above reviewer was when Straif meets Mitchella. Everything before that was added later. For those of you who write without outlines, just GO. First chapters can be hairy and rewritten several times to get the set up right. And when I originally wrote the scene, Straif came into Mitchella's shop. Then I decided this was too much like Danith walking into T'Ash's store in HeartMate and set up that Straif found Mitchella's shop closed and used his Flair to track Mitchella to the private club where she was brooding.
BTW, the choreography of the expanding 3-D business cards was h**lish to get right. I revised that bit A LOT.
Love to all, AND MANY THANKS TO THE LADIES OF OUT OF THE BLOGSPHERE FOR THE **PUSH** FOR HEART CHOICE.
Robin
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