Erin Rose

  New year, new me, right? Isn't that what everyone says at the start of a new year?  I am still here. I am still slogging through drafts on my computer that I know I need to finish.  So much has happened in life in the last few years, and sometimes I wonder if I should even finish them. But, I know I need to. It has to be done. 

 I've mentioned a few times I've been in a bit of a writer's slump lately. I have been staring at the same drafts for moons now, unsure of what to do with them, where to take the story, blah blah blah....  I thought a lot of it had to do with the fact that I had a lot of work published that I no longer loved. So, I removed it with the idea that I would tell the stories behind them. Now, that is just sitting in drafts, not because I don't love the idea of having an autobiographical anthology of sorts, but it's been more of a time issue with all of the things going on in life. Every once in a while, a blurb of an idea will come from my keyboard. This is one of them. I am not sure what I am going to do with it yet. If I should create a new story, new character, new everything or, if this should be inserted into the already started tale that's been sitting patiently for me to add to it.  We shall see. Unlike some writers who sit and crank out tales from start to fin...

  Writer's Thoughts: Fun Fact Writer's Thoughts: Fun fact -- Being polyamorous does not mean having multiple partners or that a polaym person is out there having sex with multiple people. To be polyamorous is to have the capacity to develop close romantic, platonic, or queerplatonic, flirtationships, situationships, or comet relationships with multiple people. You're polyamorous whether you have 1 partner or 10 partners or no partners.  Polyamory is about the ability to love multiple people, not about whether or not you are currently involved in intimate relationships with multiple people. Read that again -- it's about the ABILITY TO... the freedom, the openness -- all of the things that monogamists tell you is wrong or not allowed in a relationship.  Polyamory = relationship based. Swinging = sex-based. Two different things, although you can be one, the other, or both, and there is some overlap in the lifestyles.

  I tell you what.... time sure has flown by since my last post. I don't even know how that happened. But I do know the anthology isn't ready yet.  I have removed all of the separate works (books) from the retailer's sites. I had to wait a period for all of those to be removed and am happy to report that they are all gone.  That was important because if I were to have those lingering and tried to upload the anthology, the retailers, Amazon especially, would ping me for duplicate and/or plagiarized content, and it would turn into this giant headache. While I have all of my documents in Word and saved to an external hard drive and on the cloud, I put them all into one large Google Doc. Easy for me to edit and work on using whatever device I wanted.  Well, with a document that long, my s pell checker and Grammarly were playing very ugly with each other, and it was slowing down the typing and editing process, causing a large amount of frustration.  I then decided to...

                                                                Photo Credit: Pinterest Never, ever be afraid of change.  I sit here writing this post well into New Year Eve, knowing tomorrow brings a whole new year with so many opportunities to share some more words.  I have been writing little bits here and there, but not the way I used to over the years. For the longest time I thought it was writer's block but when I published the latest story this year, I realized, it's not just writer's block. It's that I don't want to write what I used to write. I am not that writer anymore.  I don't want to use another pen name like so many others do. I don't want to start over as someone else.  So, I have decided it's time to take those old stories out of...

Writing Status Update: And, that is a wrap from me for tonight. After fighting with my brain over an $29 image, I scrapped the other cover and found one that actually was a scene from the story. So, here we are. Just a few tweaks and it will be ready. Now, I just need to format the document and upload everything to the publishing sites. But that, well that is going to have to wait for another night. I am tapping out.  

Writing Status Update: #34243243243242343243t4354253 😂😂😂 Whatever. After working my day job all week, then spending most of the weekend working on my side business, cleaning, sorting, running errands, my brain farted and there was no more.  I could not sit down at the desk any more to focus on cover creation and book formatting. BUT, at least the story, writing, edits, cover pick, and title pick are DONE. Now, it's just a matter of wrapping up the pretty package and releasing it into the wild. It's pretty crazy to think about, that after 5 years I'll be published again. It almost doesn't seem real. && then to focus on the Hunter and Scarlett tale...because..yeah, that one.

I am STILL sitting on these f.cking titles and it's driving me insane. Dylan and Cambrie desperately need a title so I can get this book off my desk and published. Wanna help? Cool... so here are the ones we are sitting with right now. Got any ideas? I am sending out an SOS.   Stay I See You Passport Abroad Awaken Awakening Hunted one suggested Destination Unknown, which I love, but it is also the name of an Agatha Christie novel and while majority of book titles are not copyrighted like that, I'm not really interested in using a title of hers.  If I can work around it somehow, like use the words mixed with some others, I am open to that idea. Seriously, NEVER had this much trouble with a book title.

  Worked my way through all of the current beta readers' suggestions and edits yesterday. 😲 Still, a few minor details to wrap up and settle on a cover. I'm not sold on the title so I will have to brainstorm there. It's coming you guys, it's coming.

For every beast, there is beauty. For every wolf, there is red. For every light, there is dark. The wolf howls, the beast roars, the petals fall to the floor. One by one until they're no longer, forevermore. ~ Erin Rose She Writes Things Photo Credit: Saw it on FB. Did a image search and could not find original source to credit creator.

  “There won’t ever be another you. That smile. That swagger. The way you carry yourself to the public only to be transformed by night. The way we match on the things that matter and don’t know what doesn’t. You growl, I bite back. You never tried to tame me or change me. You accepted your fate and kept going. It’s the way you look at me- like I’m your absolute best friend and yet your hunted prey ready to be devoured at a moments notice knowing I’m going to devour you, too.” - Erin Rose

Writing Status Update: Final run-through of Cambrie and Dylan's story -- DONE.  Just sent the Cambrie/Dylan story off to the beta readers... can we do an anxiety check? 'Cause..I had it...bad... So, while those guys are reading away.... I'll work on this other story... 'Cause the Hunter/Scarlett tale needs to be hammered out.

Writing Status Update: Hopeful to have the last of the revisions of the Cambrie and Dylan tale done this week --- then off to the beta readers / checkers.

‘I hate that fucking green dot.’ she thought to herself. ‘The dot that glares at me, tells me you are online. The one that once upon a time meant hours of conversations. Hours of smiles and laughs. A bright spot on a cloudy day. Now, it just means nothing more than silence.’ Sometimes she could ignore that green light. She tried. Every day she tried.  Tonight was hard as she sat there, staring at that little green light for hours in the darkness. She wanted to reach out. But she knew the end result of that. She knew it would be nothing more than politeness. Honestly, that was worse than the silence. So, she watched that green dot. ‘I really miss him,’ she thought. ‘Maybe one day I won’t. But tonight, tonight it surrounds me with darkness and takes my breath away.’ (C) Erin Rose Work in process.....  

  She closed that door thinking she’d never hear from him again. Oh, but how very wrong she was. “We’ll meet again. In another life. Another time. Maybe.” the voicemail chimed.

  As my brain tries to wrap around the last few big edits before handing the Cambrie and Dylan international love tale over to the beta reading editors  - I've re-read the story I abandoned to crank out that one.  Pretty sure it's turned itself into a polyamory tale without even trying. I think Scarlett and Hunter will appreciate more prey.  

Writing Status Update: I can officially say all the he/she pronouns have been changed to the character's name where necessary.  I do not ever recommend writing a novella without having character names in place first.  I'm still flip-flopping over the title and there are a couple of places I want to do some rewriting. But that annoying task is over at least.

Currently staring at the draft thinking about how I need to finish changing the pronouns to their actual names since those have been decided.  What am I doing instead?  Wondering if I'm actually good enough to continue.

  Saw this little gem on Tumblr and it really got me thinking.  I’m feeling this very much right now. There’s one big finish just have to trade out the names and do a few minor final edits. But, why am I dragging my ass so much on it? Not sure. Another book has huge chunks written and just needs to have some spaces filled. Finishing these would be monumental but yet, I can’t seem to do it. We won’t even discuss the 100′s of partially finished drafts sitting on my hard drive begging me every day to open them and write. Does. It. Ever. End.

Writing Status Update: In case you missed the memo , the project I've been working on has been put on hold for the month of November. And, this new project is now sitting at 5,012 words. And just like that... day one is complete. 29 more to go.