Closing my eyes and holding my breath

It seems like anyone publishing or reading your work wants to know how you, the author, categorizes your fiction. I don't like the boxes. I use them because they're easy and people understand them: love stories, sci-fi stories, fantasy stories, shy girl meets dangerous guy, earth battles invading alien forces, boy discovers he's a special wizard.

*Sigh*

I want my novel to be more than that, more than the space reserved in the pigeonhole lineup of countless books being pitched to agents and sold to readers. Essentially then, what every writer wants to write is a breakout novel. Not the big publicity team, not the shiny cover, but a story that will rock readers worlds so hard that they're left wondering how you did it and when you can do it again.

And so, I forge ahead to work on book #2 the best I can and each time I stop and start, I feel like I get closer. That's why, with all the fear of rejection from readers, agents, and editors, writers just can't stop writing because we love what we do and there's always this impression that we're getting closer to creating something special.

What a great feeling to stand over a cliff, hanging in the moment right before a big jump!

Can you tell I'm looking forward to going home and working on book #2 tonight? :) I will take a break for Grey's Anatomy though.

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