The Pieces of Me

Hello there!

I am still working on my story, and it is going well so far, I believe. One thing about writing that I love is developing my characters. When I write, I throw a bit of me into all of them, but there is a challenge in that I do not want them to be truly me. My characters are different from me and this requires research. I mentioned in my last post that it is an AMBW (Asian Man, Black Woman) romance, and while I do have the perspective of a black woman, there are aspects of the female lead character's life that are drastically different from my own, and as for the male lead, I could glean from my husband's experience, but he is not the same man as my male lead character. So, I go out into the world gleaning from the stories of others, studying lives similar to the world my character's experience with full hope that I do them a great justice. As it is fiction, there is much I can and have made up, for example the locations are fictional, but I resist the temptation to be so lazy that it does not make sense to the world how these characters should be. That is my heart towards this story. I appreciate you all for reading this, as I chug along to create my book.

Write well friends!

~ Mrs. Sarchet

 

On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

I began writing a romance novel last November and it has been a real challenge for me. Firstly, romance is not my forte. I can give darkness and gore in any story with ease, but to have love as a central theme would take a miracle of God to come from my hand. However, last November, after watching a slew of Chinese dramas, I finally thought to take my pen to task and write the type of story that led me to meeting my now husband, an AMBW (Asian Man, Black Woman) love story. Yes, the idea of writing an AMBW story is what eventually lead me to meeting my husband, but that is neither here nor there. It has been difficult to just begin this story as I am now on re-write 9,673,452 of section one, but today I feel confident that I have found the best way for me to begin my story, and so I am off to the races! One of the most difficult parts of writing for someone who is serious about writing, can just be getting the story started. It has been my issue for decades. While I am not famous, I have written blogs and short stories, and a book that did not turn out quite as I wished and unless I decide to edit it, it will never see the light of day. Yet, I am a writer. I feel strongly that this may be my first published novel and so I am blogging the journey to remind myself one day of what it took to get there. As for me, getting past this block took listening to music that made me think of my story, watching and reading more love stories so that my mind would be saturated in thoughts of love, and drinking enough coffee that it possibly has replaced the blood in my body. If you are a fellow writer reading this, I hope you consider saturating yourself with the type of themes you are attempting to write about as it may help if you are struggling to just write the story. If future me is reading this, I pray this endeavor will give you what you always needed. The one thing your dad saw in you, but did not fully understand. The talent that came from your soul.

Write Well Friends,

Mrs. Sarchet