I Have Moved Blogging Platforms!

You can now find me at:

http://internalmadnessofpfwhitney.wordpress.com/

There I will be posting what I like to call Just A Taste. A weekly little freebie to whet your appetite for my reading and maybe a little bit of one of the books I am currently working on.

Hope to hear from you over there!

Taking Time For Myself

I have so much on the horizon this year and I cannot wait for it all. I have two books due out in about five months, a small business that I started about a month ago is beginning to thrive and I am planning on moving in a little over a week.

So much is going on that I am going to take a little time out for myself and start working on a few manuscripts.I have so many that I have started and just haven't really gone back to. I hate it when I do that. It makes me begin to question whether or not I have what it takes to sustain my writing to make it a career and not just something that I love and just so happen to get paid for. I also begin to wonder if all the good stories have already bee written and if so, how do we, as newer authors, take them and put our own spin on them? To - make it your own?

One of my publishers isn't accepting paranormal manuscripts at the moment, but sadly, that is all I seem to write anymore. I'd rather live in some made up universe where anything is possible than to live in the real world, I suppose. Maybe I can pull a honest to Gods romance out of my sleeve. Hmmm... seems as though I just set a challenge for myself. Let us see what comes of it, shall we?

New Year, New Projects

As the new year dawned, it occurred to me that I have so many unfinished manuscripts in my files that need to either be completed, rewritten completely or discarded as flights of fancy. I love all my manuscripts, so how does one just simply put one aside to work on others? It's hard. As long as I have been writing, I have made it a point to finish one project before moving on to another. To keep my focus on the task at hand, if you will, however, it seems as though I have let that all fly right out of the window.

At present, I have four or five partially finished manuscripts and a host of others which are completed, but awaiting some serious proofreading and possibly rewrites. I made a New Year's resolution that I would finish all said manuscripts and get them submitted to publishers. I am hoping to keep my resolution this year as I have only, in all my years, been able to keep one.

So, in keeping with said resolution, I completed proofreads and a serious rewrite of a sex scene on a manuscript that is very dear to me. I submitted it this evening and will eagerly await a response from the publisher as I continue to work on other things. While other authors may feel a certain rush about sending their babies off into the world, I, on the other hand, find myself a little apprehensive. I have had my first two manuscripts accepted and that was a confidence booster, so I shouldn't doubt my abilities, correct? Yeah, I thought not as well.

Well, here goes another entry to the manuscript status page. Wish me luck folks!