by: R.G. Emanuelle
When I first put my fingers on the keyboard to write this
blog, I was in a little bit of a crash mode. I had just returned from a trip
out of town (with a less-than-stellar return trip), was in a frenzy of cooking
for Thanksgiving, and had the holiday itself to deal with. Tucked into this
chaos were the proofs for my first novel, Twice
Bitten, due out in January 2013.
I’m not sure if all the other stuff going on around me was
good or bad while I did my review. See, I began going through that first-novel
panic—that overwhelming desire to rewrite the entire thing because every
paragraph, every scene, every chapter seems inadequate and in desperate need of
eloquence. But it could also be that the stresses of travel and holidays had me
on hyper-sensitivity mode. (This blog wound up getting pushed to the side and
only got completed just before Christmas.)
