{"id":342,"date":"2019-09-06T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jigraham.com\/authorblog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2021-03-22T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:59:55","slug":"mea-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jigraham.com\/authorblog\/2019\/09\/06\/mea-culpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mea Culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been 2 years since I wrote an entry and am sorry for leaving it for this long. They were two long years of frustration and dashed hopes. In my last blog, I thought that I had finished In the Blood of the King, but noooo. That wasn&#8217;t to happen. I got back the first draft from my alpha readers. They were luke warm in their response. Fine I thought. It&#8217;s not terrible so let&#8217;s re-read in preparation for sending it to my editor. I re-read it and was bored &#8211; bored enough that I couldn&#8217;t believe that my readers wouldn&#8217;t be bored.  I thought about it and decided it was because I tried a different method for writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several different ways of writing, or perhaps it would be safe to say that there are several different types of writers. I have been reading about writing and going to conferences for a while , and they always touched tangential on types of writing styles. I wasn&#8217;t sure what I was, until I decided to try one of the methods other authors used. So, in the Blood of the King I planned my book using a type of flow chart &#8211; in this case it started out as a mind map. The idea was to give me an idea of where I was heading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was all fine and good. I slogged (and I use the word slog deliberately) through the writing of In the Blood of the King and had a very difficult time finishing it so I could send it to my alpha readers. But when I re-read it I was unhappy. I knew what was going to happen. Except when I re-read Beast Master I was not bored and I definitely knew what was going to happen in that book. This required some thought which I will delve into in my next blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 2 years since I wrote an entry and am sorry for leaving it for this long. They were two long years of frustration and dashed hopes. In my last blog, I thought that I had finished In the Blood of the King, but noooo. That wasn&#8217;t to happen. I got back the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jigraham.com\/authorblog\/2019\/09\/06\/mea-culpa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mea Culpa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":360,"url":"https:\/\/jigraham.com\/authorblog\/2021\/03\/22\/let-the-fireworks-begin\/","url_meta":{"origin":342,"position":0},"title":"Let the fireworks begin","date":"March 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been a long, arduous road, but it is almost done. The two, not one but two! substantive edits have been completed. And I sweated over each one. The spelling\/grammar check has been done. Compared to the edits, that was a walk in the park. 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I had to shoe horn my characters activity into a pre-defined action. That did not sit well with my characters. 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