By Grace Brooks
Writing for me is a lonely occupation, and a solitary
existence. It occupies a lot of my time, and leaves me with no social life.
Friends have asked me why I don’t go out with them
more; they tell me I don’t know the first thing about having fun. I tell them I
have fun my way.
When I answer I will be working at my writing at the
time the social or whatever they want me to go to, is taking place, they look
at me, roll their eyes and say, “Oh, yeah. Sure.”
So, how do I do it? How do I put up with the
loneliness of writing?
Writing is not easy work. Writing is for the
perfectionist. I want that word exact word that expresses perfectly what I’m
saying. I don’t want messy writing with sentence fragments, too long sentences,
and a story with a plot that moves forward instead of jumping back and forward.
The best way to write, I find, is to sit down and
write. Don’t worry about how the story looks at first. I use handwriting just
to get the words down on paper.
After I think I’ve finished the story, I go back and
edit. Yes, edit. I find I cut a lot of scenes, then add more words, so the
story is not shortened any. This will be done later if the story needs
shortening...
Revise. Write. Revise. I ask a friend to read through
the manuscript and give me feedback as how to improve on it.
Finally. My story is finished. It’s perfectly
formatted; spelling has been checked, etc. Editors and publishing houses will
be eager to grab up the manuscript and turn it into a book.
It works this way, sometimes. I’ve had one story
published by an educational publishing house. All the rest of my books are
self-published.
I write best in the early morning. I can be up at 1 or
2 am at my computer, working away.
Writing isn’t for the lazy person or the faint
hearted. It’s a calling for me, a drive I cannot suppress. I must write.
It’s nice to see my books in print. My story has been
told, a legacy to the world.
I write because it’s a must for me. I write because I
have a lot inside me to say. It has to be brought out for the world to share.
That is why and how I write.
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Christian author, Grace Brooks enables authors of all
ages to experience the reality of the spiritual conflict as forces of good and
evil clash. Open the pages of her books. As the conflict unfolds Grace Brooks leads
readers, as she leads the Asquinn twins, Martin and Martha, and her many
characters to learn that evil is real. They also learn that God has called
Christians to be steadfast and unmovable in their faith as they earnestly
contend for the faith. Grace Brooks was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada.
At age eighteen she went west to Manitoba. Her first job was in a native sanitarium
in Ninette, Manitoba. Grace currently lives in northern Manitoba along with
husband, Dennis, and pet Papillion. Grace’s publishing credits are A Dog for Keeps,
written under the pen name Lynette Tamar Mark, The Asquinn Twins Come to forest Lake, The Asquinn Twins Where the Trail Forks, The Asquinn Twins no Greener pastures and The Asquinn Twins: Sihon, all under the name Heather Radford. She
is currently working on Book five of the series. Grace is also an ongoing
contributor to The Baptists for Liberty magazine. She’s published in a SENIORS
magazine for Manitoba. I can be reached at: Website: www.hearherradford.weebly.com www.facebook.comheather.radford.author
www.facebook.com/reading.christian www.jacketflap.com/profileasp?member=heatherradford
and at: www.goodreads.com
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