.Finally back with a 100 post challenge!

I've made mention of this before, but I sometimes struggle with saying what I want to say in my writing. That may seem crazy seeing as how I'm always working on something, but over the years I've worked around it. I'm not having the easiest time with this work in progress though.

While I've had romance in books previously, it has been relatively tame. I didn't necessarily need anything else. I think it's like anyone who practices anything to improve their craft. Eventually you want to push the boundaries of what you can do. This story is darker, and while I'm enjoying writing the rough draft, I'm struggling a bit with being more shall we say "R rated".

There are a couple of factors that contribute to this. One is because I am a teacher. I worry that when people find out about my books and they're not cute little books for kids they will judge me. I make it clear that they are chapter books. I don't think I would get fired or anything. Everyone in my story is of the proper age. They would just think I was deviat or something. I know I shouldn't care because I know that teaching is not my dream career and someday it won't matter, but right now it's paying the bills and you know, Catholic School.

Another thing that kind of made me worried back when Enshrine came out was that I had young kids like eleven and twelve years old reading it. I know that kids are not naive and that back when I was that age I probably already knew about sex too, but at the time I knew said kids and their families and I didn't want anyone's mom to come at me. So I stopped working on the Sequel because I was worried about corrupting children. All those kids are juniors and sophomores now so I guess I should not let it bother me anymore and even my Catholic School kids that read my books are in highschool so...

The biggest obstacle surprisingly...is my mom! I'm serious! She is not one to sugarcoat so if she will tell me what she likes or doesn't like in my books. She is currently reading Shrewdest Faction and as I'm typing this post, she texted me to tell that it's freaking her out. She used to question the type of stuff I used to do for ghost writing so when I'm writing scenes that are either super gory or super racy I'm like "Oh dear Lord what is my mother going to think about me when she reads this" It make me so FRUSTRATED (I love you, Mom).

It is 2020. I should not be ashamed to write about sex. It's something people do. But it is so clunky right now! Practice makes perfect I guess, but I feel like writing it in a way makes it cleaner takes away from the moment. Busting out the rough draft, but going to try to in my revisions to make it more natural. I don't want to regret not submitting the best story I can because people who know me might be embarrassed. 

Where do you stand on Romance? Do you want it as authentic as possible? Do you hate love scenes? Let me know!

Yours in writing,

Kay

It's been a while! Blame it on the day job. Blame it on starting a new hobby and blogging about it on my other blog. Blame it on writing (FINALLY GOT MY GROOVE BACK)...yeah let's go with that one.

Alright, so some housekeeping...back in November I sent Enshrine out to be reviewed and started to worry that no one wanted to read it or thought it was so bad that they couldn't review it. I guess it was worth the wait because I finally gotten a bunch of awesome reviews! I'm so happy that people keep reading Enshrine and that it surprises and exceeds their expectations. I guess I'm going to have to bust out Eminence now as people are asking for it.

Most of you saw that Limited Truth went on on a blog tour in January. If anyone else out there is looking for an affordable way to get your book out there, I highly recommend https://yaboundbooktours.blogspot.com/. The only thing I'm a little disappointed about, but it's totally not their fault, is out of all the stops on the tour, only one of them was a review. It was a good one though, so I'll take it! I may do a review tour elsewhere for Limited Truth and I'm still not 100% sure what the future of my books are so...stay tuned I guess.

I have applied to many freelancing jobs and gotten NOTHING. UGH! Maybe it's because the new hobby costs some money, but naturally because I'm looking for work, not even a rejection. Maybe this is a sign that I need to focus on my own things again because I'm a little bit discouraged.

I'm finally working on something new that has no previous contracts with anyone else. It started out as a NaNoWriMo project that had gotten a bit stale, but I've totally changed it and OMG...I can't stop writing. Like, I'm feeling stifled because I can't write fast enough. I won't go into too much detail, but we've gone from a whiny second chance break up romance to a horror suspense paranormal romance. And I'm warning you (MOM) that it's not always going to PG. 

Also the story playlist is fire.

I promise the 100 post challenge isn't over...I've got a few ideas planned.

Yours in Writing.

Kay