Today, I'm please to have Rachel Leigh on my blog talking about Writer's Block
Writers
Block – it arrived and bit me in the butt!!
For the
first time since I started writing for publication back in 2010, I am in the
middle of my first ever writing slump and need to vent some frustration!
I can’t
help feeling my inability to move on with my current work in progress has been
brought on by karma. I have always said that ‘writer’s block’ doesn’t exist.
Just write! Anything…everything…it can always be edited, changed or cut, just
write. Well, I’ve tried and tried and still I keep looking at what I’ve written
and say to myself, “What in the world is that supposed to mean? Do? Say? It’s
complete rubbish.”
The
answer, of course, is that something is wrong with the book itself, whether
that be the plot or characters…but lord knows what! Thankfully, I have an
amazing editor and an amazing critique partner who is stalwartly trying to pull
me through this mire. I think the problem lies with my heroine and her
motivation. It’s flimsier than a pair of seven denier pantyhose! No doubt, the
mist will clear eventually… L
So what happens
next? Back to the drawing board, I think. My editor has a lot more belief in me
than I do right now but that’s what writing is, it’s a hard, dirty job that a
huge amount of aspiring writers give up on. Teem the hard work, with the lack
of ideas, with the time constraints, with the rejection and you’ve got to ask
yourself, “WHY am I doing this?”
The
answer is clear to anyone who feels, like me, they’ve found their calling…we
HAVE to do this or be less than half the person we were meant to be. So onwards
and upwards…watch this space for the result!
Rachel’s
latest release is set in the UK show jumping world – Teach Me To is available
right now from The Wild Rose Press.
Here’s the blurb and buy links:
Caroline James wants to be the best
investigative journalist London has ever seen. But until she has the money to
leave the small town of Fayre Mead, she's stuck and her resentment is building.
So when she’s assigned to cover the Lakeland Horse Trials and meets sexy, dark-haired,
and astoundingly fit horse trainer, Michael Canton, she is happy to vent some sexual and emotional frustration…and write the story
of her career. But after getting personal with Michael, can she remain
impersonal with the article?
Michael Canton will do anything in
his power to silence his tyrannical father once and for all. Under extreme
pressure to compete in the countries show jumper trials and prove his worth,
Michael’s fiery emotions are running high. Caroline’s beauty and sexual
confidence stokes an inner strength and determination he never knew he had. But
can he trust her to know the difference between fact and fiction? Together,
they are a formidable team…but will their burning ambitions ultimately blow
them apart?
Buy Links:
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Bio:
Rachel Leigh lives in the UK and has been married
to her own sexy hero for fifteen years.
With four novellas contracted with The Wild Rose
Press, Rachel is busy plotting her fifth, sixth and seventh. She plans to
venture into the historical genre for the first time and write a trio of
novellas set in a small English village in the early1900s. The characters we
meet aren’t quite as prim and proper as they seem…
When Rachel isn't writing, she's reading,
watching TV, running around after her two daughters....or playing with her
husband.
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