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Writing Series

11/29/2017

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I'm a day late posting. but I'm a bit behind on NaNoWriMo. 

I'm writing a new series for NaNoWriMo. It's spinning off from the Boom Town books--the brothers of Jolie, the heroine in book six. While I love writing Boom Town books, visiting the town and characters there, I may have limited myself too much by making the town too small. I like limiting the number of characters, but having only a couple restaurants, a few stores, that certainly limited what I can have my characters do together. I have the festivals, but really, who wants to read a festival in every book? I tried something different in this last book, sending them to a nearby town for an event instead, but I really locked myself down.

Of course, when I planned the series, I had only planned four. The other books grew organically from the characters I introduced in those books, but if I'd thought about the ideas earlier, I would have planned better so the books had more variety, the characters had more to do.

Writing this new series is fun, because while I have familiar characters, introduced in Blame It on the Texas Stroll, I'm able to create another "world," a bigger town in Texas set in the Texas Hill Country. Small, still, but big enough to have wineries and a Walmart. I'm hoping this will give my characters a lot more options when it comes to having romantic moments. I will plan out the next two (possibly three) books so that they have enough variety, but the same familiarity.

My three series are all small-town related, and two of them are, or at least started out, as relatives, siblings. I have an interesting idea for my next two series that are not siblings, but connected in other ways--one by a shared event in their past, and another through their jobs. I like series--they keep you in a familiar world and help you explore interesting characters that you wouldn't get a chance to explore in a single title.

I'd love to hear from both writers and readers about how they go about series. How long is too long? I am dreadfully behind in both Jill Shalvis's Harbor series and Robyn Carr's Virgin River, so I've kind of given up. I don't remember where I am in the In Death series or the Longmire series. But I am ON TOP of Shannon Stacey's series, both her Boston and her Kowalskis. What is your favorite series?
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12/20/2017 08:29:34 am

The tagline got my attention! I do write a lot of poems but I do not know how to release it because I am afraid of people’s critics. The first thing I wrote is dedicated to my boy best friend who I fell in love on years ago. Up until now, he is still the man in my heart and no one can ever replace him. He always has the special part in my heart. I thank him even though he left because I knew my self even more and learn to express myself through different genre of arts.

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3/12/2018 08:23:11 am

I enjoyed reading what you have written and posted in here, but what caught me the most is your tagline. It reminds me of some memories I had back when I was still in college. High school days are fun, you experience new things and begin to explore step by step the things you are curious, but I admit that college will always me the memorable part of my whole educational background. Back when I was in college, I always did my best and yet I guess it will not end up the way I wanted it. It is really hard to fit in.

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