Epic Ramblings

Part 5

_+_So, I'm finally back to give you an amazing interview by CompulsiveWriter! 

1. You have completed A Knight to Remember, what are your plans for your writing now?  Do you plan to start uploading on one of your other three that are not completed?  Or are you planning something new you would like to tell us about?

      Last week I marked three books complete - 'The Watchers Wake', 'A Knight To Remember' PG13 version and the UNCUT R-rated version.  Now...?  Well, I have promised that I will complete ‘Can’t Catch Me!’ as a priority and I also want to have some fun with ‘Seriously, What’s Hot?’  I am limiting myself to that at the moment. 

      I struggle when I try to write too many books at the same time.  When I write the characters come to life in my head - it can get very crowded, then they start bickering and it just goes downhill from there.   So although I have many plot lines flying around my head, I will only allow myself to listen to a couple at a time.  And yes, insanity is a close and personal friend of mine.

2. Okay, I know that with A Knight to Remember, some said things about the fact that it was a little more ‘adult’ than other stories on here.  Why did you decide to write it that way? 

      I started writing A Knight To Remember because I had a problem.  I struggled to write hot, steamy... intimacy.  I didn’t know what was tasteful, how far I should go with it and I was just super embarrassed.  So I sat down and wrote the first twenty chapters of AKTR and crammed it solid with... well, you get it.   Once I got to Chapter 20ish I stopped.  I had done what I wanted to do, it had no story plan, no ending, and I wrote it strictly for my benefit - I never planned on sharing it or finishing it. 

      Many months later I started on Wattpad.  I joined wattpad simply to enter the Gatekeepers Competition with ‘Don’t Catch Me!’.  But wattpad grabbed me and pulled me in.  And so what did I do...?  I started to upload A Knight To Remember - the heavily edited PG13 version.   Why?  Because I fell in love with the characters.  I really didn’t expect it to gain a following because it was so much more mature than other stories on Wattpad. 

      At Chapter 4, when I was deleting vast chunks of text, I asked my readers if they would like to read the R-rated version.  And so, with a burning red blush, the UNCUT version was born. I can’t tell you how I hesitated each and every time, cringing as I hovered over the ‘Save and Publish’ button before finally thrusting my mouse button down and releasing it... (opps sorry...PG13)

      But I will tell you that it worked.  I now can confidently write and publish intimacy.  So from then on I uploaded the two versions - the PG13 version which was edited to include the romance and the plot and the UNCUT version which had that and stuff I can’t mention here in it. 

3. What is your favorite genre to write, and what is your favorite genre to read?

      I love reading just about everything - I read it all - although I don’t like horror or abuse stories.  When I read I transport myself into the story and there are some places I just don’t want to go!  

      Similarly I am still a new writer so I haven’t settled on a genre.  That is what Wattpad is all about for me.  I use it to challenge myself into writing new and different things.  That’s why my stories are so varied from ‘Don’t Catch Me!’ and ‘Can’t Catch Me!’ (Science Fiction/Adventure), ‘The Watchers Wake’ (Thriller/Vampire/Fantasy), ‘A Knight To Remember’ (Historical/Non-teen) to ‘Seriously, What’s Hot?’ (my first attempt at humor with a splash of every single cliché Wattpad has ever seen).