Blogs

Okay I have spent a great amount of time tonight writing and then I went and researched other published mystery and romance authors blogs. Mainly to get a feel of their writing schedules and also to get to know some of them. I was quite impressed with several authors blogs and more to the point I recieved quite a kick out of other blogs. One well known bestselling author blogged that for the New Year she had decided to write ten pages a day. This lasted two weeks she just couldn't keep up writing and felt like she was writing anything publishable. Since her editors and bank accounts want it to be publishable she went back to only writing five days a week six pages a day some days only writing six hundred words. I had to laugh because I can relate to all of this you see sometimes it is very hard to sit through blank spots in the creative mind set there are simply days when the words won't come and usally that means you have a problem in your manuscript, character development and maybe you've just flat taken too many notes in stalling on writing and you have confused yourself and written yourself into a mental corner without writing. I hate it when this happens because I just don't picture the great authors like Agatha Christie and so many more having this problem in the past. Is it the day and age we live in? Life too fast paced, too many obligations, some of us never quite getting through raising our children, or is it that our predecessors were more responsible to the written page? I have no answers and I definitely have not figured out what makes me tick as an author. One year it's one thing and the next year it is something completely different. I do know I don't drink my way through writing as have some of the late greats but that may simply be because my stomache won't take the drinking like it did too many years back to count so I can't conquer through drinking, I have never taken drugs so I can't go there either which means I face the blank page cold, sober and then become distracted by email and feeding the cats. Yes, I have two cats and I can always blame them for not being a cozy author.......oh wait a minute not I can't cozies have cats, dogs, parrots, ostrich, however I can tell you why I am not a culinary author. I can't cook......I cannot really cook like most people can, I went so far one time to burn play dough that I was making my daughter well I am conservative in the kitchen and so when my darling daughter asked why her white play dough was black I made her a bracket and necklace out of it and told her it was black onyx jewerly she went to play and show off her jewerly from play dough (aren't kids adorable when they're being gulliable) and anyway every mother on the block called was NOT amused because I had did that and asked what food coloring to used to get black onyx well the play dough stuck to the pan and was being a pain to wash so I stuck it in the oven at 450 degees for one hour and that melted the handles and from there on my husband for many years had hooks on the back wall of the stove and checked the pots and pans when he came home to make sure I had not melted anything else. That my friends is why I do not write culinary mysteries. Although I have thought of writing a series feature a culinary cook who cannot cook and doesn't know it. But wasn't so sure that would catch on. I love to read culinary mysteries such as Joanne Fluke, Joanne Pence. They need not worry about me having a book come out I love Angi and Hannah they are safe with me.
I do add humor to my mysteries and I have had several people tell me that my books remind them of various other cozy authors. That was never my intention as I want my own unique voice. Okay I am going to write some more my break is over!!! Hugs, Pamela