Comments on: Turn The Beat Around http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/ Romance Writer & Urban Fantasy Novelist Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:01:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jordan http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1961 Jordan Fri, 27 May 2005 22:11:39 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1961 Thanks Charlene! I do have both those wonderful books. I've found what I want to do, just not how I want to do it. ;-) Thanks Charlene! I do have both those wonderful books. I’ve found what I want to do, just not how I want to do it. ;-)

]]> By: Charlene http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1960 Charlene Fri, 27 May 2005 20:50:51 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1960 I've done some reinventing! Two good books to help the process: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles. Both of them help you define what you really want to do. But I believe writing has its own intelligence and if you just follow it it will show you where you want to go. I’ve done some reinventing! Two good books to help the process: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles. Both of them help you define what you really want to do.

But I believe writing has its own intelligence and if you just follow it it will show you where you want to go.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1959 Jordan Fri, 27 May 2005 14:00:23 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1959 Chey, I don't think anything I write will be completely without romance. ;-) It's just that lately all the stories I'm coming up with aren't focused on the romance. They concentrate on the adventure and the romance happens along the way. My concern is since the romance comes so late in these books, I don't think they're actually romances. They're more Clive Cussler with a bigger romance thrown in. LOL! I say this, but I've never actually read an entire Clive Cussler. It's probably a more accurate statement to say they're like Tomb Raider. *g* Chey, I don’t think anything I write will be completely without romance. ;-) It’s just that lately all the stories I’m coming up with aren’t focused on the romance. They concentrate on the adventure and the romance happens along the way. My concern is since the romance comes so late in these books, I don’t think they’re actually romances. They’re more Clive Cussler with a bigger romance thrown in. LOL! I say this, but I’ve never actually read an entire Clive Cussler. It’s probably a more accurate statement to say they’re like Tomb Raider. *g*

]]> By: Jordan http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1958 Jordan Fri, 27 May 2005 13:55:24 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1958 Suzanne, That's exactly what I'm concerned with. I've been all over the map so far. I have written an Egyptian time-travel (loved it), a Regency vampire (loved it when I was finished, but bled more than the vamp's victims writing it), five contemporary paranormal fantasies (combined Stargate with Tarzan and Atlantis), three contemporaries (had no idea what I was doing), and a partial sci-fi, horror urban fantasy (no clue where this one came from, but I loved the heroine). Can we say reader confusion? I think we can. LOL! Suzanne, That’s exactly what I’m concerned with. I’ve been all over the map so far. I have written an Egyptian time-travel (loved it), a Regency vampire (loved it when I was finished, but bled more than the vamp’s victims writing it), five contemporary paranormal fantasies (combined Stargate with Tarzan and Atlantis), three contemporaries (had no idea what I was doing), and a partial sci-fi, horror urban fantasy (no clue where this one came from, but I loved the heroine). Can we say reader confusion? I think we can. LOL!

]]> By: Jordan http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1957 Jordan Fri, 27 May 2005 13:50:29 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1957 Ellen, That's good to hear. I haven't fallen into the 'love it' genre yet. (Well, I do love paranormals, but I use that word so broadly that it would still not be considered one genre.) I'm glad the change you made worked out better for your career. I hope it does the same for me. I do think it's important to be happy with what you're writing. Ellen, That’s good to hear. I haven’t fallen into the ‘love it’ genre yet. (Well, I do love paranormals, but I use that word so broadly that it would still not be considered one genre.) I’m glad the change you made worked out better for your career. I hope it does the same for me. I do think it’s important to be happy with what you’re writing.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1956 Jordan Fri, 27 May 2005 13:45:37 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1956 Thanks, Sasha!!! Thanks, Sasha!!!

]]> By: Cheyenne McCray http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1955 Cheyenne McCray Fri, 27 May 2005 12:20:12 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1955 An adventure writer. That rocks. :) But still give us a little romance with that adventure. *g* Oh, yes about the reinventing yourself. Nothing like going from writing young adult novels, all the way over to writing erotic romance novels. I consider myself more of a romance author than a YA novelist. I have books coming out in that genre, but that will be it for awhile. Romance has become my new focus. Just three years ago it wasn't. :-) An adventure writer. That rocks. :) But still give us a little romance with that adventure. *g* Oh, yes about the reinventing yourself. Nothing like going from writing young adult novels, all the way over to writing erotic romance novels. I consider myself more of a romance author than a YA novelist. I have books coming out in that genre, but that will be it for awhile. Romance has become my new focus. Just three years ago it wasn’t. :-)

]]> By: Suzanne http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1954 Suzanne Fri, 27 May 2005 10:48:21 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1954 I've reinvented myself numerous times in my career by writing for different lines, different publishers, contemporary and historical. I finally figured out I needed to pick what I loved most, stick with it, so readers' heads would stop spinning and they could find me, LOL. I’ve reinvented myself numerous times in my career by writing for different lines, different publishers, contemporary and historical. I finally figured out I needed to pick what I loved most, stick with it, so readers’ heads would stop spinning and they could find me, LOL.

]]> By: Ellen Fisher http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1953 Ellen Fisher Fri, 27 May 2005 09:39:55 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1953 Oh, yeah, I reinvented myself. I started out as a historical romance writer, but after two books I switched to contemporaries. This was partly in response to market realities (colonial American historicals are not an easy sell to NY, and they don't sell like hotcakes to ebook readers either) and partly because I had started to enjoy contemps and I just felt the need to do something different. Something funnier. And I'm happier writing contemporaries, so I'm glad I made the change. Oh, yeah, I reinvented myself. I started out as a historical romance writer, but after two books I switched to contemporaries. This was partly in response to market realities (colonial American historicals are not an easy sell to NY, and they don’t sell like hotcakes to ebook readers either) and partly because I had started to enjoy contemps and I just felt the need to do something different. Something funnier. And I’m happier writing contemporaries, so I’m glad I made the change.

]]> By: Sasha http://www.jordansummers.com/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1952 Sasha Fri, 27 May 2005 06:50:31 +0000 http://208.73.34.214/~jordansu/2005/05/26/turn-the-beat-around/#comment-1952 Go For it! Reinvent, rejuvinate! Good Luck! Go For it!

Reinvent, rejuvinate!

Good Luck!

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