I've always loved writing. All my life, since the tender young age of six when I started keeping a diary. What I learned from that over the years is; keeping a diary means someone will eventually read it and/or read it out to the entire class in 6th grade when you forgot your private diary in your desk and you stayed away from school for a week with the chicken pox. Only to return, majorly embarrassed. Or that time when I left my diary at junior high school and Mandy Busybody (something or other) decided to tell everyone that I put a little heart next to a boy's name, and therefore I must have a MASSIVE crush on him. I did have a crush on him, but I didn't want him to know that.
Anyhoo, I digress from the topic of this blog post. I wrote many other things over the years. My fiction was fan scripts for TV shows I like, and short stories of my own.
Then in 2009 I decided to write a whole novel. I didn't know if I could do it. I struggled with putting together sentences that made sense, so I read more and looked at how other authors laid out their prose. I struggled with writing dialogue so much that I had to do a course on it. And every writing course I've ever done has helped me immensely. The writer's group I'm part of helps my writing. Every bit of writing I do is practice and improvement of my art. Although I did get fed up the other day when I sat down and started penning a new short story. I felt like I was a bit sick of my own writing style, and that's when I knew I hadn't implemented a new form.
Since writing my first novel I like to implement a new strategy into my writing, every time I start a new piece. But more on that later, I'd like to elaborate on what it takes to write a whole book. And it took more than I'd anticipated. I mean, I didn't think I could actually do it. Back in 2009 I had to work up the motivation and just go for it. Eventually I got the first draft written in a couple of months, but then I re-wrote it over many years. Too many years. I messed up my first novel by re-writing it at all, but I learned never to do that again.
Actually the first novel idea I had was to write a book and title it: Supermum. So my main character would have been a single mum who gains super-powers and not only has to save the day for her children all the time, but ends up saving the whole wide world against an evil enemy!
But the idea I ended up going with was understandably right up my ally. I wrote Bedevilled. A supernatural romantic comedy novel about the devil who is a woman. At the time of writing was my 2nd year in life being atheist, after coming out from behind the curtain of Mormonism. I mean, I was a jack-mormon since my teen years, but until I studied psychology at university in 2006, I used to believe there was a Jeebus the Christ, and all that crap. So when I realised there was no afterlife, or God who art in heaven (neither of which exist) I had at it and wrote a novel about a devil-woman with glee and utter abandon.
Comedy has been my favourite genre, in the main. And then romance. I do like stories with romance in, or sexual attraction, which is always in most movies, shows, books, etc. Romance/lust. Same stuff.
I might still write Supermum someday. I'd like to, but first I've got to finish writing my 20th novel. Or something like that. So yeah I wrote my first book in 2009 and I've written books ever since.
Bedevilled on Amazon in paperback
Anyhoo, I digress from the topic of this blog post. I wrote many other things over the years. My fiction was fan scripts for TV shows I like, and short stories of my own.
Then in 2009 I decided to write a whole novel. I didn't know if I could do it. I struggled with putting together sentences that made sense, so I read more and looked at how other authors laid out their prose. I struggled with writing dialogue so much that I had to do a course on it. And every writing course I've ever done has helped me immensely. The writer's group I'm part of helps my writing. Every bit of writing I do is practice and improvement of my art. Although I did get fed up the other day when I sat down and started penning a new short story. I felt like I was a bit sick of my own writing style, and that's when I knew I hadn't implemented a new form.
Since writing my first novel I like to implement a new strategy into my writing, every time I start a new piece. But more on that later, I'd like to elaborate on what it takes to write a whole book. And it took more than I'd anticipated. I mean, I didn't think I could actually do it. Back in 2009 I had to work up the motivation and just go for it. Eventually I got the first draft written in a couple of months, but then I re-wrote it over many years. Too many years. I messed up my first novel by re-writing it at all, but I learned never to do that again.
Actually the first novel idea I had was to write a book and title it: Supermum. So my main character would have been a single mum who gains super-powers and not only has to save the day for her children all the time, but ends up saving the whole wide world against an evil enemy!
But the idea I ended up going with was understandably right up my ally. I wrote Bedevilled. A supernatural romantic comedy novel about the devil who is a woman. At the time of writing was my 2nd year in life being atheist, after coming out from behind the curtain of Mormonism. I mean, I was a jack-mormon since my teen years, but until I studied psychology at university in 2006, I used to believe there was a Jeebus the Christ, and all that crap. So when I realised there was no afterlife, or God who art in heaven (neither of which exist) I had at it and wrote a novel about a devil-woman with glee and utter abandon.
Comedy has been my favourite genre, in the main. And then romance. I do like stories with romance in, or sexual attraction, which is always in most movies, shows, books, etc. Romance/lust. Same stuff.
I might still write Supermum someday. I'd like to, but first I've got to finish writing my 20th novel. Or something like that. So yeah I wrote my first book in 2009 and I've written books ever since.
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| Bedevilled Bubbles is a woman in trouble. Life on Earth just became Hell. Quite literally seeing as how there's escaped minions from the underworld to deal with. And to think it all started with a blind date. Or did it? There's more to that Godly looking man than meets the eye, and Bubbles is intent on finding out just how divine He truly is. |
If you've any trouble getting hold of a copy of Bedevilled contact me anytime. Also, if you'd like a personalised signed copy you can email me at suzkorb15@gmail.com
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