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Talking To Your Characters
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Marta Stephens Jun. 16, 2007.
What has being a writer taught you about yourself?
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What has being a writer taught you about yourself?
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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Christian Fiction Author
- Do You Have A Website?
- http://www.jackimcguyer.com
- About Me:
- Published (First Novel) Blood Secrets-Christian/Paranormal-January 2007 Wings-Press. Best Seller January 2007.
Honorable Mention-Writer's In the Spirit Contest – His Pure White Light
Honorable Mention-Colorado Gold Contest – In the Shadow of the Valley
While raising four children Jacqueline McGuyer got her degree in accounting in Houston Texas. As an accountant, she worked in the oil industry and the hospitality industry. When she got tired of counting beans, she and her husband transferred to Vail, Colorado where she managed a resort hotel for ten years. The Rocky Mountains were the inspiration for her first novel, Blood Secrets, published January 2007.
You'll most likely find Jacqueline McGuyer rooting around garage sales, reading and collecting old books, working in her yard or barbequing with her family--mostly writing. "I wish I had a mind like Stephen Kings, or Randy Ingermanson" she says, "They are totally unbound."
She and her family recently purchased an old abandoned gas station in Kerrville, Texas and converted it into a coffeehouse. "From the moment we opened the doors, I knew God sent angels to watch over all who came there. Souls were saved at that coffeehouse…mine included." The essence of that coffeehouse is woven through the story of The Java Pump.
With every book she writes, it is Jacqueline's ambition to grow and be faithful to her readers. She aspires to give them an entertaining story to dazzle and provide honest and thoughtful information to keep them coming back for more. Above all, she is a Christian and her faith guides her pen. Jacqueline now makes her home in Texas with her husband, Pat.
- Favorite Books:
- To the shock and dismay of my Christian friends, I read EVERYTHING. I love Steven King and Randy Alcorn equally. I do, however skip over sexually explicit content, Ha, I find it boring.
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is one of my all-time favorites as well as anything by Taylor Coldwell or Ayn Rand.
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- I sometimes buy a book on Amazon, my book, Blood Secrets, is there. However, I can go there, shop around and click off anytime I want without buying a book. However, when I walk into a brick and mortar bookstore, I'm hooked. There's no way I can leave without a book in hand. The smell of the pages--the feel of it in my hand. Cyberspace will never take it's place.
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The Sub-Genre Dilemma
How many times have I received a rejection letter with a little note written at the top or bottom reading, "Not for us"? Too many to count.
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Posted on June 12, 2007 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment
Style VS Emotion
How vain it is to sit down to write, when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau,
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FIRSTS
I suppose there always has to be a first for everything. We don't remember most of the firsts in our lives--our first steps, our first tooth--our first smile. Our mothers have those locked away in their hearts. I don't even remember my first day at school. I have a hard time remembering a lot of my early childhood. However, I do remember my first dance.
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A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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What an impressive past and what a bright future. Great to connect with you. In Germany we say: man lernt nie aus. One never ceases to learn. Thanks for sharing.
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Satis
Just returned from my daughter's wedding in Laguna Hills, CA where the weather was delightful and the wedding....oh, soo perfect! I need to blog about it today on http://www.yagotmestarted.blogspot.com/
one of my many blogs. It occurred to me just now that maybe I should have a blog for good happenings, as well as the rants -- how many times do we get detoured by complaining about the "bad" things in our lives and forget the good? And who's to say they are good or bad? It's our reactions to the situations that make it so....
Okay, no more philosophical comments. At least right here.
Marilyn Morris
Promotion is tough. I still have a stack of copies of Scratch--out! my thriller about a junk mail attack on the United States. I guess it's too realistic. People want feel good fiction.
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