It’s springtime and you know what that means! Not just switching the closet from turtlenecks to sleeveless and from boots to sandals. It means there’s a lot of new reading on the horizon. So many of my favorite authors come out with summer books in the next month or two and I find myself dog-earring page after page in the publisher’s catalogs, my yellow highlighter run dry!
Reading books by authors I admire is one of the best ways to get inspired where my own writing is concerned. When I see them find success with amazing characters and plotlines–or with tender-hearted characters and HEA’s guaranteed–I close each book with a happy sigh and think, “Me, too!” Then, I turn to my own notebook and my own characters with eager enthusiasm. My WIP is two-thirds done, now, and it’s exciting to see the threads of the story start intertwining. In the “muddling middle” of a novel, it can seem as if those threads are too far apart to ever reach–and yet, page by page, word by word, they turn toward each other and now, here I am, at the top of the rollercoaster, ready to tip over into the final part of the story, where more ups and downs and thrills await, before The End!
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