Most of the writers I know personally ( the ones who know my name) are like me.  They have good ideas and are able to construct a sentence reasonably well, but have not made it to the top of the writing heap.  I am not making a living from book sales nor do I have agents pounding on my door begging to represent me.

  Some days I am confident and dream of the future.  Some days I wonder why I am beating my head against the wall.   

All of the articles in books and magazines as well as blogs say "Marketing is the key."   My own publishing team tells me  I am doing  the right things and to just keep doing them.  Well, ok....I will...but, it would be so nice to know  somebody out there  has actually read my books and thinks I am on the right track. 

 I want to be a good writer.  I want to put out a good product.  I want to build a "fan base"  and would not even mind becoming rich and famous.  I want to write novels that get good reviews.  To accomplish all those things, I guess I have to keep doing what I do.  I am looking at myself in my tiny lipstick mirror now and  saying the Magic words!   Don't Give UP! 


Tomorrow I will go to  The Opelousas Library and read my children's books to  the crowds of adoring little angels for STORY TIME.  They don't know or care if I am rich or famous.  They do like my Lizzie Cap and they seem to enjoy the stories.  I enjoy the story times.  There are no parents there to buy my books but I  do  have fun.  the Library ladies treat me well and I always come home feeling good.  

I am on my third self-edit of my new novella called Tiny Bones.  It is going well.  I took out huge chunks of   perfectly good information that  just didn't need to be there and  have added  more dialogue and  eliminated over 300  over-usages ? of the word "that".  Who knew such a little word could get thrown into so many places?  For the record, I just took out 6 "thats" from this one  page.  Tonight after I finish my 3rd self edit..I will put the file away for a few days and  get ready to start on self edit # 4.  I don't know how many more times it will take until I declare it DONE.
 I will  check again for ways to eliminate over usages of THAT and JUST and THEN.  Nothing makes a story look amateurish  faster than over using those little words.  By the time I finally declare it finished, I will  be sick of it.  Then I send it to my REAL editor and watch her destroy it....LOL......she will find at least 200 more over used words and probably have me rewrite  several passages.  She is called the Evil One by some of her other clients.  I don't call her that because I want my little story to shine and  she is good at helping me polish.  
 Dear Readers, I have to get back to work now.  If you do want to read my books You know  they can be found on Amazon.com.  I have three children's books and two novels.  No Earthly Boundaries  is the first novel and Blood Redemption is Number 2.  Enjoy.  and don't forget to leave me a comment  in the review section if you  liked them. 
 I won't give up.  One day you will all know my name.  now.........back to Tiny Bones.