Rules:

Grab a book, any book. 

Turn to page 56. 

Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you. 

Post it. 

Add your (url) post below in the Linky at http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/.

Here’s me interviewing myself, being asked all the questions I wish others would ask me. Enjoy. 

Eric: Eric, thanks for being here and answering some questions.

Eric: It’s my pleasure, Eric. We should try to say “Eric” a few more times. 

 

Eric: I know, right? So, Eric, let’s get started. What’s the first thing you ever wrote?

Eric: It was called “The Snidey Spider and Eric the Elephant” story. I was lucky to have a transcriber named “Mom” take down my words, since I couldn’t type yet. The first and only edition, complete with illustrations, is still in her possession.

Eric: That’s a tear jerking story. Did you always want to be a writer?

Writing has always been in my blood. It’s only been over the last ten to fifteen years where it’s been cathartic for me. Inspiration comes from every corner of my life from health, to family and friends, to even a lack of inspiration at times. Writing is not what I do, it’s who I am. My characters drive me, they steer their stories and show me where it’s supposed to go as opposed to where I “think” it should go. 

Writing in first person has been an eye-opening experience and one that is not as easy as I thought it would be, but is indeed as rewarding as I hoped it would be. I have learned more about my characters and myself writing this way. POV, whether it be first, second or third person is very important no matter which one you use. It’s as important as tense and time-frames. Writing in first person POV is harder because the reader should feel like you’re talking directly to them, telling only them a story and if you can accomplish that, they trust what they’re reading. When trust comes into focus, the story and characters become real and that’s where the fascination with your story begins and hopefully doesn’t end until the end. It will also leave them waiting with baited breath for the next book. 

10 reasons you should buy my book, Destiny Bewitched:

1.) It’s funny.

Her sister had been dragged away to some hideous supernatural version of Fight Club and she was daydreaming about the love of a demon. Someone ought to smack her.

“Ow!” She rubbed her forehead where she’d just bumped it on a low hanging tree root. “Stupid karma.”

2.) It’s sexy.

They were panting and sweating, bruised and bloody and desperate as hell. He looked into her eyes, a stark look of pure lust – dark and sensual but full of possession. He was taking his war prize. And she was it.

3.) Its adventurous.

Then the worg charged. There was no way her lame protection circle would do a lick of good against such a powerful attack. So she did what every other red-blooded American girl would. She ran like hell.