11/01/2005
Women rule...
We are the best.
No equivocation, no debate, just fact.
However, I do love my alpha males... I air-brush them on the page until they're just the way I want a man to be.. Oh, yeh baby... Right now, I have Lorenzo under my fingertips, and we're steaming!
Meanwhile, back on Planet Reality- Thank you so much for your good wishes, Krista!! The lost book wasn't quite as bad as I had anticipated. A large part of it was just as I remembered, though sadly some more of it was definitely First Draft standard...(Clearly a version I had discarded when I started work on one of the deleted versions)
I don't know about you, but the way I work is this- I get an idea, and I write the whole book down fast in a great whirl of excitement. By the end I really know those characters, and they want to change heaps of stuff from back when I didn't know them quite so well- that's where the subsequent drafts come in.
Anyway, if I ever write Susan Stephens tips on what not to do when you're writing a romantic novel, my number one tip would be this... On your first day back after a break NEVER delete anything.
And later, when you do want to delete something- resist the urge until you've saved it onto a disc, and then put it somewhere safe, neatly labelled!!
Phew!! Mopping of brows all round!
Keep those comments rolling in- I love to hear from you!
Love to you all- and wishing you all stress-free reading and writing!!
Susan
No equivocation, no debate, just fact.
However, I do love my alpha males... I air-brush them on the page until they're just the way I want a man to be.. Oh, yeh baby... Right now, I have Lorenzo under my fingertips, and we're steaming!
Meanwhile, back on Planet Reality- Thank you so much for your good wishes, Krista!! The lost book wasn't quite as bad as I had anticipated. A large part of it was just as I remembered, though sadly some more of it was definitely First Draft standard...(Clearly a version I had discarded when I started work on one of the deleted versions)
I don't know about you, but the way I work is this- I get an idea, and I write the whole book down fast in a great whirl of excitement. By the end I really know those characters, and they want to change heaps of stuff from back when I didn't know them quite so well- that's where the subsequent drafts come in.
Anyway, if I ever write Susan Stephens tips on what not to do when you're writing a romantic novel, my number one tip would be this... On your first day back after a break NEVER delete anything.
And later, when you do want to delete something- resist the urge until you've saved it onto a disc, and then put it somewhere safe, neatly labelled!!
Phew!! Mopping of brows all round!
Keep those comments rolling in- I love to hear from you!
Love to you all- and wishing you all stress-free reading and writing!!
Susan
