Inspiration Hits!

After a few weeks of wondering what I am next going to write, I have found inspiration. Yes, I feel a possible trilogy coming on! As I am currently obsessed about the Australian outback, and have just finished editing my first outback book, I have been hit with a fabulous idea about a farm in the Outback, with the stories of three sisters being told, each with their own book. There is also a little inkling that a handsome neighbour may just been looking for a wife too, but that will be a story to keep until after this three have been done.

So, I'm off to continue researching where and how these stories are to take place. I already have the name of the farm in mind, and the characters plotted out, now I just have to figure out who to start with.

How I Just Love to Waste Time . . .

As usual, when I really, really want to write, I end up wasting time on the internet, reading about other authors, how they sold their first book, and generally everything that doesn't involve actually writing myself! But now, after wasting an hour or so tonight of writing time, I am ready to ban myself from reading blogs and GET BACK INTO IT! After all, nobody will ever be reading my call story on the internet if I don't actually keep creating stories that could become published.

So . . . enough of the time wasting and on to the task at hand. After all, I have a Desire story to finish, a possible Harlequin Romance Trilogy to blot out on paper, and a really fun single title that is just dying to be written. Ooohhh, I can just feel the creative energy coming back again after its little holiday!

It's All About Timing

Today something very scary happened to me. While walking one of my dogs out in the forest, somewhere we go every week, another dog came out of no where and attacked Beau, our male yet very friendly boy. It made me realise that everything is about timing . . . if we had arrived at the forest ten minutes earlier or later, would we have even met this other dog? And now, four stiches later and looking like Mike Tyson after a very bad bout in the ring, Beau is probably wondering how a friendly outing turned so bad. I mean, he loves every dog on the planet and approaches, tail wagging, for a play - now he has a puncture wound that nearly caused him to lose his eye.

Unlike the stories and characters I create, where I control the timing, life takes it's own path. Although my characters might battle with what they want to do, I ultimately decide for them, and even if I put them through tests and trials, I know the outcome will be happy. So, when people ask me, as they inevitably do, why I write romance, I now have a pretty valid answer. You can never forsee what is going to happen in life, but at least romance readers have a little guarantee that whenver they pick up a good old romance, for a few hours at least, they are going to know that whatever the conflict, however bad it seems, there is a happy ending in sight.