Charlotte, Elise, and Daisy in the Finding His Destiny Series. I was a new author and had no idea what I was doing. I now have a good editor and I feel my writing has gotten better. I do hope to revise them someday. I have a lot of head hopping in those first three and the second and third books I rushed to get them out by a deadline and that was the wrong thing to do.
I've always enjoyed writing and making up stories, but never thought I'd be an author. I owe my writing career to Susan Stoker who encouraged me to take the plunge and go for it.
Trying to write like a man thinks is difficult, because I'm not a man and the whole men are from Mars women are from Venus is totally a thing. Men do not think like women, but we want them too. So it's really tempting, and I'm sure that I do, make them think and act like we, the women who read my genre, want them to. I hope that I get close. I do have a few guy friends that will offer advice if I ask for it, but for the most part I just wing it.
I had very little writing experience prior to that first novel. I had no idea what to expect. I was overwhelmed and somedays I still am. Publishing a novel entails so much more than putting your story on the page. Not on the formatting, editing, and proofreading, but marketing, advertising, getting a great cover and blurb to catch the readers attention.
Go for it! Don't wait until you're nearly 50 years old to start putting those books out there. I wish that I'd written them when I first had the desire to start writing when I was in my late twenties, but I didn't. I've lost a lot of years that I could have been putting my chaos on the page.
I began writing in 2019 at the encouragement of Susan Stoker. She's a romantic suspense author who I'd begun reading and found she had a fan fiction world. I emailed her on her website not expecting to even get a reply, but if I did get one, I thought it would be her personal assistant or something. SHE emailed me back personally. I was overwhelmed and she was so helpful and encouraging. I'll be forever grateful to her for giving me the push I needed to take the leap.
