Okay, I went back to my story and read a little of what I’ve written. I found a bunch of mistakes, but overall, I really like it.

It’s almost weird for me to just sit and write something that has no home. Usually I write stories for a particular publishing house in mind. I go into it with a mindset. This time I have no pre-conceived ideas or agendas. I’m just writing because it’s fun.

It’s been a long time since that’s happened.
Not that I don’t LOVE writing, I do. I love creating worlds and stories and getting to know my characters, but I always have a little voice in the back of my head sort of reigning me in. For example, for one of the houses I write for, I have to use specific words and have a greater number of sex scenes in my books. For another house I have to watch particular comma issues. For a potential third one, I really have to balance the romance and the suspense and be careful about swearing.

For this book I can do whatever the hell I want!!!! It’s very freeing. I’m not worried about what I’ll have to edit out because I don’t have a home for it. As it stands, I’ve written 10,000 words and am actually getting drawn deeper into the story. Things I’d never planned on happening are happening and it might be a lot longer than I’d originally expected.

I kind of figure it’ll end up going on my website as a free read at some point, but we’ll see where it leads. Who knows what will happen to it as it takes on a life of its own?

All I know is, writing is fun again. If that’s all I get from this story, it’s enough.

I’ll keep you posted on my word count as time goes on.

Blogger was down yesterday so I couldn’t blog about my story. Which probably isn’t a bad thing, because yesterday was a release day and I did diddly squat on my story.

I did manage to do some promoting of my book, and I did a lot of laundry, but no writing. Which means I’m kind of cranky because I can only write on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I won’t be able to work on my story until tomorrow.

On the plus side, I’ve got this awesome cover for my book TAKE YOUR MEDICINE. I have to tell you, Scott Carpenter is a freaking genius. He got exactly the right type of guy for this picture and even put a bandage on him. Yum, gotta love those pecs!

This is the sequel to SURPRISE and was kind of a surprise book in itself. The hero Jared, and heroine Macayla were secondary characters in SURPRISE. I had no intention of writing another book with them as the main characters. They had other ideas.

Of course, SURPRISE was the first book I ever wrote, and I kind of just did it because I was trapped at home with two children under 4 and pregnant. I needed something to do. The baby whom I was pregnant with at the time will be 5 next week. I’m amazed at how much my life has changed in the past 4 years.

Sorry, going off on a tangent there. Tomorrow I’ll try to talk more about the story. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to write and actually have a story.

Ari