Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
No fear.
It has been some time since I've read a book that these two words popped up in my head. It might be because I read a book this week and I did feel the author was writing with fear. More on this later.
I've been living with fear myself lately. I have a dark fantasy I'm working on and I've been afraid. I knew I shouldn’t be, but I was anyway.
Ink Exchange -aside from the paranormal world-is the world I lived at sixteen. Melissa jumped in and wrote what had to be written with no fear for the outcome. There is no sugar coating. It's raw and alive, centered totally on emotions.
If she had tiptoed around the truth of the matter and not dug deep enough, the story would never have worked. It's dark and it's real and it was written without fear.
So what did I learn?
If it hurts to write it, if it hurts to read it, then it's probably the best thing you can do for your book. So I need to find my courage and put it to use. Courage=power. It's always been that way.
Thank you Melissa Marr! You fed me your courage and I consumed it to the very last drop. And it was good. And it was fulfilling. And I am stronger now.
It has been some time since I've read a book that these two words popped up in my head. It might be because I read a book this week and I did feel the author was writing with fear. More on this later.
I've been living with fear myself lately. I have a dark fantasy I'm working on and I've been afraid. I knew I shouldn’t be, but I was anyway.
Ink Exchange -aside from the paranormal world-is the world I lived at sixteen. Melissa jumped in and wrote what had to be written with no fear for the outcome. There is no sugar coating. It's raw and alive, centered totally on emotions.
If she had tiptoed around the truth of the matter and not dug deep enough, the story would never have worked. It's dark and it's real and it was written without fear.
So what did I learn?
If it hurts to write it, if it hurts to read it, then it's probably the best thing you can do for your book. So I need to find my courage and put it to use. Courage=power. It's always been that way.
Thank you Melissa Marr! You fed me your courage and I consumed it to the very last drop. And it was good. And it was fulfilling. And I am stronger now.