NaNoWriMo is almost here...who's in?

Hello friends,

As an unofficial kickoff to NaNoWriMo, I want to share with you where I’ll be spending a lot of time in November.

This space is my writing sanctuary, it is the place where I escape from the ‘real’ world and my mind is free to wander and create.

I look forward to writing my next book during the month of November. I also look forward to 2019 when I’ll embark on the next stage in my writing career: finding an agent.

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Happy writing,

Maria

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Photo by cottonbro from Pexels Hello Friends, My www.mariacox.net website will be revamped. I'm excited to share my newly improved site on February 21st. Stay tuned for details! Maria Cox

Writing is HARD work. There I said it!

Recently, I had a conversation with a fellow writer about different writing styles. We talked about how some writers can simply sit down on a computer and write on command; I cannot. My pre-writing process can take me ten, fifteen, twenty minutes or more and it usually involves me ‘getting in to character’; I need to connect with the hero and heroine before I can delve into their lives. It is then when I’m emotionally attached that ideas begin to form I’m able to capture the thoughts and the scenes and the story begins to unfold. I can tell you that when I begin to write a story, I too experience the same nervousness that a lot of writers feel. Will anyone read my stuff? Will anyone care about what I have to say? This is the fretful process of a writer, yet, we, I, push forward and write with excitement, optimism, and a lot of discipline. On an amusing note (or maybe not so) one thing that we, writers, often encounter is that non-writers tend to think that writing is easy.

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