This is a Blog about Books....And Life

This blogger writes about her struggles to write. She is a Christian and also writes about her dislike of what she calls Christian fiction. She calls this type of book, Candyland, and she does not want to write them or read them.

Here is what she has to say:

I don’t agonize over every word. I don’t worry about offending anyone, but neither do I intentionally set out to do so. I’ve been around long enough to know that no matter how hard you try, somebody out there is going to find something to pick on and get their knickers in a twist over. It happens. I’m not perfect and neither are my characters. As I’ve said before, (in this blog post) I won’t pretty it up and put a bow on it. Sure, there’s a market for those Candyland type books, but I don’t read them and I don’t want to write them.

 

Further into the blog she has a picture of her manuscript and writes about the work she is going to have to do to get it right. "Every word counts," she says. Now she is agonising over every word. She does not see the contradiction.

There is no failsafe method in this madness. At least I haven’t found one. Remember Harry Potter? Rejected how many times? I will probably never know what I’m doing wrong, but I darn well better be sure I know what I’m doing right. And that takes work. It takes commitment. It takes courage and yes, a certain kind of craziness to do what I do. And keep doing it. No guarantees.

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