I’ve gotten some great questions, so here are some answers.
What do you write? What genre?
I write mostly contemporary romance; I don’t have the attention span to do the research for historical. However, one of my future rejections is a children’s book and the other is for a comic book series. So, basically, a little of this, a little of that.
Are you going to use any specific software?
I’ll probably use Scrivener (This is not an ad.) to start. I like the way it organizes my thinking and I really like (Again, not an ad.) their new product Scapple.
I don’t write in order and I don’t have enough space to keep multiple corkboards for the tiny, nudgy, character-specific/story-specific details. Scapple lets me get them out of my head and keeps track of how they relate to the story.
Edits and revisions will probably be done in Word (or the Linux alternative). That’s right, the Sphinx is a penguin!
Technology aside, I often write best and fastest with a pen and paper. I have to have a really good head of steam going before I can replicate the amount of words typed versus written.
You don’t really hope to get rejected right?
It’s pretty much accepted fact that all writers get rejected and I know that I’m not going to be everyone’s cup of tea (Irish Breakfast, brewed strong, black, one Splenda), so I might as well make peace with it.
At one point in the life of each of my future rejections, I stopped because I was worried it wouldn’t be submittable. (See what I did there? 🙂 ) One of my hoped-for outcomes of this project is to get past those thoughts/fears, write the damn book, get to the rejection phase and see if it hurts as much as I think it will. (I actually think it will hurt more, but we’ll have to see.)
And then, keep going.
Also, in order to get rejected, you have to a whole packet ready to submit, another milestone I haven’t yet achieved. By the time the rejections start rolling in, I’ll have already hit (and conquered) some here-to-fore personally unfaced obstacles. Will these (seemingly minor) victories blunt the sting of rejection? Will accomplishment adrenaline propel me to keep at it? Who knows?! I guess we’ll find out together.
Okay, that’s all I have time for right now; I’m still in the writing stage.
I. Sphinx