Interesting hiatus

Hello to all!

Isn't it funny how life, just ordinary life, can derail us all? I was promising myself that I would post regularly and with something to say and fully intended to keep my word. However...

I have taken a break. Admittedly I have not been idle, but I just haven't written the blog posts I had circulating in my head. Afraid I am not one of those highly organised people who have 365 blog posts lined up on some autosubscriber or whatever ready to be posted each day. :) I genuinely envy those people that they can be so organised. If I have 3 blog posts written for different blogs, I consider I am wonderful. If they are all spontaneous, then that is the ultimate triumph for me.

I just cannot follow one mentor's words and organise myself to be several months in front of myself. This is what I mean life gets in the way. I like to be spontaneous - i.e. if a certain topic jumps into my head, then that is what I blog about. Admittedly it won't make me rich, but I am happy that way. Is it why I also have no idea what my characters are going to do from one minute to the next.

At the moment, I am having great fun with a possibly Young Adult  novel, or rather, a novella, which hopefully will segue into a series. It is giving me a great deal of fun because I have taken the vampire ideology and turned it on its head.

I mean, who imagines vampires as not perfectly sexual, charming, brooding and dark? My hero is blond, has problems with his teeth and has all the troubles of a young ordinary male trying to understand things. This in turn leads to some spectacular failures. I am having a great deal of fun with young Tebbenus and his dysfunctional family. He will end as a short story on Amazon, I hope. :)

One lovely lady, who is successful in her own right, has been giving me encouragement when I have wanted just to share a small part of my myriad of fears. She is Nancy Hendrikson. I don't promote people, but she is a genuine, caring person and her eBooks show it. Check them out on Amazon.

Have you ever wanted to reach out and contact someone without expecting anything back from them? This is how I connected with Nancy. She sent me a promotion for something of hers and I wondered if she had something else that I thought I needed to uinderstand a topic. I was stunned when she sent me a personalised email, without any promotion or anything apart from encouragement.Now I know many successful people genuinely do not have time to personally respond to emails, but those who do do themselves a service.

I do not mean to bombard these kind people with an email every day. Just to connect is enough. Try it sometime and see what happens. If you receive a reply, great! respect it. If you don't, then understand others are busy too. If you expect nothing, then a reply is a lovely surprise.

And, as always, keep writing and trying. Success has many features, not just fame and fortune. Just achieving something is also  success.