Writings

I suppose it's time I updated again, huh? I've been working rather hard on my personal writing projects, leaving less time for this. It's a little exhausting, actually. People can easily see twenty pages of text and underestimate the time it took to write it, but that's a serious amount of work. Not to mention, I'm odd in that I think double-spacing my documents is cheating, so I only 1.5 space them, meaning my twenty is actually closer to thirty. Logically speaking.

'But Rebekah, why can't you just post some of the stuff you've written and call it a day?'

Simple. Putting things up on the interwebs is a form of self-publishing. If I were to publish something, I can't very well approach an agency and ask them to take, produce, and advertise it no matter how amazingly complex and in-depth it is. No, not even if it's a crossover. As someone who's really hoping she can have things in print one day, I'm not even willing to risk a teaser. Sorry.

'What about that stuff with the cats?'

Also simple: That's my cat. That really happened, and I really did start laughing hysterically when my sixteen-pound tabby was chased around by a paperweight. It's also not something I think I'll ever really want to publish, unless I'm asked to write some children's collection about cats. I don't think I'd do well with children's books, though. I use too many big words.

'Ok, so what about random stuff you've written for fun. Can we see that?'

Uh...Sure. As soon as I write some.

See, I'm really bad at writing short stories. I'm concise enough, but I just have a whole lot to say, and I enjoy digging deep. I'm still working on packing my punch into a smaller fist. That's half of what this blog is for, actually. The other half is getting a reading base who will actually care if and when I get something truly published.

'Ok, one last thing. What on earth is a crossover?'

Speaking the marketing language, it's what every writer should strive for (not that I'm all that bothered by my marketing statistics at this point in time). See, approximately 80% of readers are female, leaving the remaining twenty to be male. Most books either interest one gender or the other, but not both. A crossover hits the 'sweet spot' between both groups, intriguing and entertaining them both. A crossover, in most cases, makes more money and reaches more people. Publishers are always on the lookout for crossover novels.