This is a blog post relay which the lovely and talented Dana Roae, who is a Stage 4 finalist in Harlequin Love Inspired’s Killer Voices, invited me to join. Way to go Dana!
Question #1: What am I working on now?
I am finishing up the first draft of another inspirational romance. I plan to have it completed by May 31st. Then I’ll spend spend the rest of my time revising, editing, and polishing.
Question #2: How does my work differ from others in its genre?
I write in two genres: inspirational romance and middle grade fiction. In both of those genres, my writing voice is fun and quirky. I also touch on spiritual themes without being preachy. So readers get an entertaining read which hopefully draws them into deeper introspection.
Questions #3: Why do I write what I do?
Both inspirational romance and middle grade fiction are reflective of who I am, a believer, a romantic, and a kid at heart 🙂
Question #4: How does my writing process work?
Process? Ha! When I wrote my first inspirational romance, I didn’t have a writing process. I didn’t know how to write a novel. When I wrote my first middle grade novel, I didn’t have a process either. This was great for the whole discovery part of writing but frustrating for the “what is this story about?” part of writing. Now, I have a process. I spend about a month planning the story. After planning, I spend 6-8 weeks pounding out a first draft. I’m pretty Type-A with editing and revising so I can spend about 5-8 months revising and polishing after that. It’s usually during that time I go deeper into the story and make it shine.
Be on the lookout on June 2nd and 3rd for the next folks in the “My Writing Process” blog hop:
… Spirited, gritty turn-of-the-century romance stained with suspense Professional coffee drinker, Jaime Wright, resides in the hills of Wisconsin writing historical romance with a distinct emphasis on suspense. Her day job finds Jaime directing an HR Office and developing her employees and their training programs. She’s wife to a rock climbing youth pastor, mom to a coffee-drinking little girl and a bottle-drinking baby boy, and completes her persona by being an admitted Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Blogspot junkie. Jaime is a member of ACFW, enjoys mentorship from a best-selling author, and has the best critique partners EVER! (yes, that’s an exclamation point) In her “down time”, Jaime reads voraciously, socializes incessantly, drinks coffee addictively, and overuses “-ly” words excessively.
Represented by: Mary Keeley of Books & Such Literary Agency
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Laurie Tomlinson is a wife and mom from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who enjoys reading and writing stories that uncover God’s grace in the “wait-and-see” moments. She is a member of My Book Therapy and the American Christian Fiction Writers and received the 2013 Genesis Award for Contemporary fiction.
Caryl McAdoo and her husband Ron—high school sweethearts—live with two grandsons in the woods south of Clarksville, the county seat of Red River County in Northeast Texas. She enjoys four-wheeling over the 916-acre McAdoo Ranch, horseback riding, and singing the new songs God gives her. For every blessing in her life, including ten children (counting in-loves) and fourteen grandsugars, Caryl credits her relationship with the Lord, and her heart’s desire is to glorify Him.
Donn Taylor led an Infantry rifle platoon in the Korean War, served with Army aviation in Vietnam, and worked with air reconnaissance in Europe and Asia. Afterwards, he completed a PhD degree at The University of Texas and taught English literature at two liberal arts colleges. His mystery novel Rhapsody in Red and his suspense novels The Lazarus File and Deadly Additive received excellent reviews. The poems he published in various journals are collected in his book Dust and Diamond: Poems of Earth and Beyond. He is a frequent speaker for writers’ groups and has taught poetry writing at the Glorieta and Blue Ridge conferences. He lives near Houston, TX, where he continues to write fiction, poetry, and articles on current topics.
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