Insecure Writer’s Support Group
It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs.
September Question – If you could choose one author, living or dead, to be your beta partner, who would it be and why?
What a tough question! After giving it some thought, I would love to meet and have a conversation with Nora Roberts. Having her beta read for me would have me so nervous, but what an honor it would be.
Nora has written more than 200 romance novels! She also writes under the pen names, J.D. Robb, Jill March, and Sarah Hardesty. Can you imagine having your novels on the NYT Best seller list for 861 weeks, 176 weeks in the #1 spot.
She write’s eight-hours a day, even when she’s on vacation. That’s impressive! Writing mostly trilogies, Nora doesn’t write from an outline but creates a short first draft with all the elements of the story and then adds texture and color in her second draft, something I’d love to learn more about from her.
Because she doesn’t care for flying she does most of her research online.
We are both baseball fans so I imagine the sport would be part of our conversation.
Which author would you like to have as a beta reader?
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Multiple authors have signed with publishers and agents as a result – it could be you!
Stop by and visit today’s awesome co-hosts PJ Colando, J Lenni Dorner, Deniz Bevan, Kim Lajevardi, Natalie Aguirre, and Louise – Fundy Blue!
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Happy Writing,
Doreen
2 thoughts on “It’s Another Meeting for the Insecure Writers..”
That’s a lot of books! I’d like to learn how to add more texture to my drafts as well. I’m very bare bones when it comes to descriptions.
I’ve always admired how many books Nora Roberts has been able to produce. Even writing eight hours a day, that’s very productive.