About Writing A Book
Becca over at: Being Becca recently sent me a lovely little message requesting that I write a post about the journey of writing a book. When it comes to writing a book, the journey will be unique for everyone. The basic gist of it is this though: The most daunting part of writing your own book is the first word. The first sentence. How do you start it? It really isn't as natural as it may seem. Once Upon A Time isn't going to work. A book needs to be gripping from the get go. You need to hook the reader and reel them in right away or they'll swim off downstream, far away from you. Once you've established the basic plot and story-line and hammered out that grueling first line - your fingertips will start to leak words onto the keyboard. At least that's how it was for me, The problem is, your fingers will start leaking like freaking lactating breasts in the middle of the night. You'll wake up at all hours - FILLED to the brim with...