Write Your Characters: Rachel Dye (Laney2r)
“I write romance novels.” This phase took me years to be comfortable writing and then saying to the world. There can be an inherent bias associated with writing the “bodice rippers.” My first (and still incomplete novel) was fantasy. I spent my first Nano year writing in the fantasy genre and to be honest, it was a miserable experience. Fifty thousand words remained elusive, but my goal was to move from the coveted ground of writer to published author. So I continued to plod through what I thought was a commercially viable book. By the time Camp Nano 2015 rolled around, I had what felt like an incurable case of writer’s block. Allowing myself the freedom to step away from the carefully plotted outline of my first book, I decided to write short blocks of whatever came into my head for ten minutes just to get the juices flowing. By the end...