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| Dead Cool by Sara Jayne Townsend Who would resort to murder? Kindle UK |
Today I'm swapping with mystery and horror author Sara Jayne Townsend. Sara, joining us from London, England, is my guest. She's sharing about making time to write. Now there's something many writers need to figure out! AND Sara is generously offering a giveaway of a choice of either one of her Shara Summers books, Death Scene or Dead Cool,or the horror novel, The Whispering Death. The spooky book trailer is at the end of the page Take a peek, if you dare.
Please leave a comment below to enter the drawing. Winner will be chosen after 6 pm EST on Wednesday, November 25. Good luck!
Since it is a blog swap, I'm at Sara's blog revealing my desire to raise awareness about issues in our modern society through my writing. Sounds like a heavy topic. I would like your opinion about authors using their stories to bring attention to their causes with subtle messages in books. You're invited to hop over to Sara Jayne Townsend's blog after you finish here. You can sign up for the Rafflecopter drawing while there or sign up below to win prizes during the Deadly Undertaking Book Blog Tour. Deadline to enter is midnight November 25. Thank you.
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| The Whispering Death by Sara Jayne Townsend UK Kindle link Death comes to us all; life is the name of the game and everyone has a role to play. |
MAKING TIME TO WRITE
By Sara Jayne Townsend
There’s a misconception that the writing
life is a glamorous one. And that all writers are rich. If you’re JK Rowlings,
that’s undoubtedly true. If you’re not – well, the reality is that the vast
majority of writers don’t earn enough from writing to do it for a living and
have to have a separate source of income.
For me, and many other writers, this means
writing around the day job. I have a rather demanding day job that involves
three hours a day of travelling to and from London. Finding the time to write
around that requires discipline. I can’t afford the luxury of waiting for the
muse to strike. I allocate time to writing, I sit down to do it, and if the
muse is asleep I poke her with a big stick until she starts being productive.
I don’t use my commuting time to write,
since my train is rather crowded and getting out the NetBook on the train would
mean elbowing my fellow commuters and, more importantly, having someone read
over my shoulder – off putting, to say the least. Nor do I generally write
during lunch time. Sometimes I need that time to get away from the office.
Sometimes I use it for personal tasks I don’t have time to do at home, or for
writing blog posts or Tweets or other promotional material. Neither do I get
much writing done in the evenings, since I’m generally too tired when I get
home from work to focus.
So my writing routine these days is to get
up at 5:30am twice a week and take the early train into London, where I sit in
a coffee shop with my NetBook and write for an hour before going into the
office. Getting up at such an ungodly hour doesn’t suit everyone, and I
wouldn’t say I’m naturally a morning person, but there does seem to be an
advantage to writing before my ‘internal editor’ is awake. I am quite
productive at that time in the morning, especially with a first draft, as I am
able to tap directly into my subconscious for the words, without that internal
voice interrupting with, “that sentence is rubbish”. An indulgent breakfast
muffin to munch on and a big cup of tea to drink as I wait for the NetBook to
boot up gives me added incentive to get out of bed so early, and I can arrive
at the day job feeling satisfied that I’ve achieved my word count for the day.
And besides, the early train is much quieter, since most of my fellow commuters
are still in bed at that time.
The trick to finding time to write is to
work out what’s best for you and mark the time in your calendar. If you can’t
face the idea of getting up early, maybe you can allocate some time in or lunch
hour, or sit at the laptop after the kids are in bed instead of watching that
TV show. But once you’ve worked out what’s best for you, put the time in your
calendar and treat it with the same commitment as you would any other appointment.
The truth is, the writing life isn’t an
easy one. Those of us who feel moved to do it, do it out of a sense of need
rather than regard it as a pleasurable hobby. And the only way it happens is to
apply backside to writing chair and get words written. If there was an easier
way to do it, we’d all be best-selling writers.
ith two
cats and her guitarist husband Chris. She
co-founded the T Party Writers’ Group in 1994, and remains Chair Person.
About Sara
Sara Jayne Townsend is a UK-based writer of crime and horror, and
someone tends to die a horrible death in all of her stories. She was born in Cheshire
in 1969, but spent most of the 1980s living in Canada
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| Author Sara Jayne Townsend |
She is the author of the series of
mystery novels featuring Canadian actress and contemporary amateur sleuth Shara
Summers, but her most recent release is a supernatural horror novel, entitled
The Whispering Death, featuring a group of live action role players who
unwittingly release an ancient evil during a game.
Connect with Sara and her writing online at
Sara's blog
Follow her on Twitter
Join her Facebook Group, “Imaginary Friends”
Video
Book Trailer for The Whispering Death by Kensington-Gore Publishing
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5 comments:
Hello Sara. Welcome to the J.Q. Rose blog. So happy to have you as my guest.
Funny I was just talking with a frustrated writer that expected just that to live off what he made as a writer. I told him he might want to write for the love of writing instead.
Anna from Elements of Writing
I think Sara made a good point about writing and income. Are we crazy to write because we love it? Of course there's always those famous writers we can aspire to who make lots of money e.g. Stephen King and Danielle Steele. Thanks for stopping in, Anna.
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