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This is my writing spot where I work and develop WiPs that I am currently working on |
| Welcome to Sam's Writing Spot! This is where you can see what I am doing in my writing as well as learn about who I am, the person. I promise to keep it interesting and to give you glimpses of not only my work but my personality as well. Don't be shy, stick around and read! |
| I never really saw myself as a erotic romance writer. I love reading the stuff, but writing it, nope not some thing I could see myself doing. And yet I can conjure up a plot with a couple of characters and have a romance sitting in front of me. Go figure. After much hemming and hawing I have decided that it is my calling so I am going to go with it. I have pieces of erotic stories all over the place. I guess I have been kind of scared to take the plunge so to speak. Now, I figure why fight it just go with it. If this is what I am good at I need to stop fighting it and just write. Hopefully my oldest daughter won't be too embarrassed by it! |
| It is every writer's worst nightmare: you are working on a piece and then you realize you have to take it apart and start all over. You have already invested a considerable amount of time in it and the thought of scrapping it just kills you. What do you do? Well, besides cry and have a total nervous break down! You embrace it and go with it. I have been working on a short story for a contest for over a month. I based my story on a local legend in my area and after doing some digging (which I had been meaning to do for some time) I realized that I have to make some major changes to my story. At first I was a little beside myself, did I really want to go back and change it, or did I want to keep it as it was. Since it is fiction it probably doesn't matter if I change or not. But what I was questioning was the integrity of the piece. Because I like to use history as a backdrop for my work, I wanted to keep this little story as close to the local legend as possible. Which would mean I would be going back and changing almost all of it. So, after much thought I have decided that I am going to go back and change the story. Since it is only a short story I won't have too much to cut and change. And it won't change the plot of the story too much. It will alter it, but I will still have my main characters and the original idea behind it. So, lesson learned: do research before you start to plot your story if you are using a local legend. It will avoid the dreaded starting from scratch disease! |
| As a writer my favorite part of the process is creating my characters. I can usually envision them before I give them names and personalities. My head is usually a busy place with all of them in there waiting to come out! I put a piece of me in each one, a little quirk or habit. It's like my personal trademark so to speak. I try to make my characters unique and throw things at them that you would not expect. My latest character is a Shaolin Monk who is going to become very conflicted when he meets a certain British woman and develops strong feelings for her. As a monk he is not to crave physical or emotional attachment, in order to achieve enlightenment one must let go of all attachment. For my monk he has to battle with his growing attraction to a pretty female and try to keep his sanity intact. Throw in a really evil opium smuggler posing as a diplomat, a ruler who doesn't trust your monastery, and a country on the verge of war with the British Empire and you can see the poor guy has a lot on his plate! Will he come out okay and with his pretty female? Time will tell, he will be tested like he never has before and he will change as the story progresses. He has to be my favorite character to date that I have written. And he came about from a picture that I got off of Google images. I saw in this monk's face hundreds of years of pride and work. He is carrying on a tradition that at one time was revered by the dynasties in China only to be burned out at one point and these fighting monks killed. He was not smiling in the picture, but there was some thing about his face that drew me in. I knew I had to create his story and give him his own persona. My monk is noble and compassionate but very much human in that he has feelings for a woman. He understands that his choices will affect him in ways that could change his life forever. So the question is, what will he do? That is the question his story will answer in time. My answer: to find his one true happiness with the person who makes him feel alive. I think he is off to a good start, don't you? |
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