Writing is…
If I could explain two things about being a writer (from personal experience) it’d be these two things:
Writing is easy.
Writing is hard.
And that sums it up. You’re welcome!
Just kidding. Well, not about the two things, I’m super serious on those.
Writing is easy:
When you get in a groove. When the motivation motivates. When the inspiration inspires. When you get that perfect phrase that makes the whole scene click, and you lose yourself in the words.
Yeah…writing is easy.
But writing is also hard.
Writer’s Block. Yeah. It exists. Even when it “doesn’t,” it absolutely does. Because sometimes…the words don’t come. There are days where I’m so motivated, so pumped to sit down and write, and I have the scene perfectly laid out in my head. And I sit down at my laptop and forget how to string words together to make a sentence. Or something feels off, and nothing else clicks until you fix it. When you’re tired, overwhelmed, overstimulated, exhausted, and there’s just not…enough…time. But you still feel like you have to write.
Writing is hard.
And you know what? I’d still be a writer. I’ll still sit down wtih my laptop every day, every night. I’ll still keep my foldable keyboard and phone stand tucked in my purse, so when I’m out somewhere, I’m never without the means to write.
Over the last 15 years, I’ve occasionally had to push back writing on the priority list. But I always come back to it. And these characters always welcome me home.
And you know what else is both easy and hard?
Sharing these characters with the world. (Yes, I know that’s the whole point of writing! But they’re still my babies.)
I know they won’t be for everybody.
There will be swearing. (Lots of it. You’ve been warned.) There will spice. This is not a closed door/fade to black love story. If I ever write one, you’ll be the first ones to know.
But for the ones who stick around, I hope you like them as much as I do. I hope there are lines you reread (okay…I hope you reread the whole thing, let’s be real), and I hope you squeal and cry, and maybe even throw the book across the room. I hope it makes you yell and gasp and stay up way too late to finish just one more chapter.
And then I hope you send me a message letting me know you were awake until 3:27 because “Dex said what now?!?”
I’d love to get those messages. And I’ll respond (maybe not timely…I can’t even respond to my own texts timely, but it’s probably because Dex and Hunter were demanding another scene…)
One last thing that’s easy and hard: Keeping up with socials, blogs, etc.
Writing to you and sharing my thoughts, and my love for what I do is easy. Tearing myself away from a scene because I haven’t done a blog post in x amount of days? Sometimes difficult.
Also, I was just never big on posting. But I’m trying. For y’all. And for those that stay tuned and stick around, I promise to keep trying. To keep giving you updates, sneaks, character tidbits, and random thoughts. And if a little time goes by in between, I’m sure, just like we all know, life comes calling. But these characters are persistent. They won’t let me stay away. It’s been fifteen years, and I’m finally, finally ready to let them out into the world.
If you read all of that, thanks for being here. Keep an eye out for updates, I hope to have some soon!
Celeste <3