by Holland Rae | Jul 2, 2019 | Editing, Humor, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels
Do you ever have a moment in your writing when a character’s actions feel so right? They’re so perfectly aligned to the personality that you can almost picture your hero sitting in your bedroom doing the thing. Then, a month later, when you go over the draft for the...
by Holland Rae | Jun 24, 2019 | Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels
My grandfather was a writer. He was a songwriter and a playwright, a historian, children’s book author and general teller of tales for as long as history dates back. Up until the last, he was writing prose, crafting the perfect sentence and muttering cantankerous, but...
by Holland Rae | Jun 18, 2019 | Characters, Editing, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
I have to rewrite my book. The problem is that the book is more than halfway complete – not finished, not by any stretch, nor yet early enough in its infancy to teach it another language. This book is a mere first-date-night-arm-reach from hitting the fifty thousand...
by Holland Rae | Jun 10, 2019 | Industry, Musings, Reading, Romance Novels
I can’t say for certain how many times I’ve written the email myself. Certainly, the amount of times I’ve deleted and rewritten the email is at least double. I don’t mean to fangirl… Your books are really inspirational. Thank you for being so accessible to readers…...
by Holland Rae | May 20, 2019 | Characters, Heroines, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels
I think about writing all the time. It doesn’t matter how many stories or series I’m currently writing, editing, outlining or dreaming up, the simplest detail of a day, a conversation, a house on a hill, the taste of a new type of tea, can set off inspiration that...
