It’s nice to know that I’m the captain of my writing ship, and can change course as needed.īack to Truly, Madly, Sheeply and this picture. So it turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks! I just assumed that once a writer had an established process–writing every day–they stuck with it–or were stuck with it–forever. I just wrote for the sheer joy of it for those few hours, every week. I didn’t worry about making everything perfect–I knew it eventually would be. I didn’t worry about meeting a deadline–I knew that would happen. Somehow, corralling my writing into once-a-week sessions and not worrying about the consequences (because there was no point in worrying–it was simply what I had to do) uncorked a sense of joy that I didn’t even know I was missing. Well, plus a week-long push at the end when I was knitting all the chapters together and polishing it up. Yes, only on Saturday mornings! That’s all the time I had to devote to it. Truly, Madly, Sheeply was written over the course of a year, on Saturday mornings. Meanwhile, however, those work responsibilities meant I needed to change my usual process when it came to writing stories. I absolutely love it, and will share more on that in a future post. For a while now, however, I’ve had a full-time “day job” (that’s what writers call any paid work besides writing) at Longyear Museum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Process is what writers call the way in which they choose to write.) Time was, I could devote every day to writing stories–and I did. Why, you ask? Well, for one thing, I switched up my process. Plus, it was an absolute joy to write from start to finish. It’s the fourth and likely final in my Pumpkin Falls mystery series, and it features some of my favorite things: sheep and knitting and October in New England. Truly, Madly, Sheeplyis dear to my heart. And if we’ve done our job well, those readers will be happy with what we’ve created. After months and sometimes years of writing, and then months and months of waiting, publication day is the day the finished product finally hits bookstores and libraries, and from there, the hands of readers. Altogether now, “Happy book birthday to me!”īook birthdays are a big deal to an author.
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