It’s time for another Guest Author Thursday post and I’m excited to have one of my favorite romance authors on the blog today.
Melanie Jacobson is the author of The List, Not My Type, and the newly released Twitterpated. Melanie not only writes entertaining novels, but her blog and Twitter posts make me laugh on a regular basis. Watch for my review of Twitterpated next Monday.
Connect with Melanie: WEBSITE | BLOG | TWITTER
Twitterpated is on sale (25% off) now at SEAGULL BOOK.
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Top Ten Reasons I Write
I get a lot of questions when people find out I’m an author, and mostly they’re the same questions. “How do you find time to write?” “Where do you go to write?” But they don’t really ask the question that would slice right through to the heart of all my neuroses (oh, yes, mine are plural) and reveal all my inner cogs and gears: “Why do you write?”
Lucky you, you guys didn’t even ask and I’m going to tell you because it’s on my mind right now after a hard day (let’s just say “bodily fluids” and leave it at that), when it’s almost my bed time, and I’m still trying to meet my word count, THAT IS THE QUESTION I’M ASKING MYSELF.
So I really hope I come up with some good answers. I need a reminder as to why I embrace the crazy.
10. It’s the pressure valve for my head. If I didn’t have my writing, I’d probably post in insane number of inappropriate, rambling Facebook status updates.
9. It’d be really hard to think of other reasons for why I didn’t get to the laundry.
8. My mild social anxiety comes off as eccentric and artsy instead of alarming.
7. I’m a glutton for punishment.
6. Without this outlet, I’d probably spend all my time describing my weird dreams to people in painful detail.
5. It keeps me from using all my time writing angry letters–to the newspapers, the school board, the makers of my defective hand slap chopper. (I’m not kidding about this one.)
4. I’m genetically coded to do this. It’s a Louisiana thing. We can’t help but tell stories.
3. I love the sound of keys clacking while I type.
2. I get a do-over on all past relationships if I want one. But mostly I just get revenge. Every jerky guy or girl you see in my books? Probably rooted somehow in reality.
1. I love it. And I am more me when I do it, the me I hope my Heavenly Father expects me to be as I try to share my talents.
7 Responses to “Guest Author Thursday: Melanie Jacobson”
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Ditto. (Except for the Louisiana part.)
Great list! :) About number 9 . . . yeah. When I’m trying to finish a book, it’s easy for me to procrastinate things I don’t want to do (and I’m a world-class procrastinator) because “I’ve got to finish this book!” Then when I turn the book in, my true self is revealed. The book wasn’t the reason I didn’t get things done–it was just the excuse that allowed me to justify my procrastination. Because when I’m not hurrying to finish a book, I STILL don’t want to do those things, and I STILL put them off, but feel worse about it because I don’t have the book as my excuse. Sigh . . .
OH my gosh!! So I guess I need to become a writer, then I wouldn’t be so weird!! haha Right though? RIGHT?!
Number six… oh! Number six… That’s me.
*hangs head in shame*
I like 6, too. So far, two thirds of my books have come from dreams. lol
Hilarious, as usual. I think #2 is my favorite.
Such a good list. Whatever the reasons, I’m glad you’re doing the writing.