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    • #AmWriting Book Talk: Farewell My Lovelies #MFRWauthor

      Posted at 8:41 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on April 19, 2019

      blog post Farewell my Lovelies, Mary J McCoy-Dressel Books, Western Romance, #MFRWauthor 52-week blog challenge post week 16

      It’s Friday. Join us for another Marketing for Romance Writers 52-Week Blog Challenge post. However, I must tell you this is a copy of a post written for this topic in a previous year. Wait, don’t leave.

      I’ve written The End on new books since then so a little has changed in the celebrating department. I have revised this copied post in brief to update and add changes. The first change is rewriting the topic as given to us this week in 2019.

      Week 16: The End: A Time for Celebration?

      Yes, I celebrate but in subtle ways. When I finish my work and it’s ready to go, I’ll smile and tell my hero and his heroine they are free to go out into the world. I will miss them when it’s over. This is another reason I write a series. I get to see them again and again.

      I don’t celebrate like I should or have a big to-do (outside of my mind). I take little down-time after finishing a book either in a draft or a true ending. Another thing I do is give myself a silent praise or a pat on the back.

      I wrote an ENDING to a new book within the last two weeks. Yay! YAY! Bringing this book to an end had been a struggle to find the perfect ending. If any of my endings deserved a celebration, this one did. The book still has to see the editor, so I will revisit this book. It isn’t due out until November, but I might push it up to October.

      At writing the ending, I shouted it on social media and celebrated with their Likes and Comments. I told my close friends. Many of them have heard a little about the story, so I relished in their pride for me. Then, alone with myself, I stepped away from the book wondering what the heck to do now. I already missed my hero and heroine, the setting, and I wanted to go back to them. Albeit, in the coming days, I subtly celebrated with Netflix, watched movies, enjoyed a couple lunches with friends as we talked about the book, and I finished “reading” a book I had started a while ago.

      I breathed.


      Well, it had been a short-lived break. Another book waited. Knowing me, I will celebrate the same way when this book is published, but my heart will be pounding and nerves-a-shakin’ because it will have been sent into the world.

      In the meantime: 

      It was time to get back to work. I stuck my hands back on my keyboard.

      Previous to writing the end to said book, I had another book started, as I usually do though this time I took more breaks than usual and shopped for a couple new outfits. I allowed myself to breathe with time to myself away from the keyboard, before taking the next book to its own ending, which I’m doing now.

      Mary J McCoy-Dressel, Western Romance Blog Post Celebration when completing a novel.

      Thanks for reading.


      This is the time to hop on over to check out the #MFRWauthor Blog to find other participating author links. This year there are new authors participating. Not new as in “brand-new authors,” but new to the 52-Week Blog Challenge.

      See ya next time.

      Mary J McCoy-Dressel, western romance author, blog post #MFRWauthor Week 1 2019

      NOTE: Authors and readers? Do you think pushing up my release date to October is a bad time because of Halloween and other paranormal books being released? I don’t want my release to be buried. Hah, pun intended. 👻💀

      Happy Writing and Reading.

       

      Photo credits: Pixabay.

      Posted in #AmWriting, 52-week blog challenge | 15 Comments | Tagged #AmWriting, #MFRWauthor, #WritersLife, blog hop, Celebrating in Stages: Farewell My Lovelies, Farewell My Lovelies, Marketing for Romance Writers 52-Week Blog Challenge, Mary J McCoy-Dressel, relaxing my way, Romance, western romance
    • #AmWriting Celebrating in Stages: Farewell My Lovelies #MFRWauthor

      Posted at 7:30 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on April 13, 2018
      Mary J McCoy-Dressel Western romance, Blog post Celebrating after completing a novel

      Here we are again. Welcome back. It’s Friday and time for another Marketing for Romance Writers 52-Week Blog Challenge post. It’s a blog hop, baby!

      Week 15: How I celebrate completing my manuscript

      I’m not sure if this means after completing a draft or after it’s been edited and ready to go. Either way, I don’t celebrate like I should, but for now it works for me, and gives me a period of down time after finishing a book.

      Upon completion of a manuscript, I’ll take a few days or a weekend to get away from the stories and relax with Netflix, movies, dinner with friends, or take time to read someone else’s book. To breathe.

      I don’t celebrate outwardly, but I do celebrate internally at different stages. A sense of pride overwhelms me once I:

      • Finish a first draft.
      • Send a manuscript to my editor.
      • Finish the final edits.
      • I RELAX and enjoy the moment after sending it to my formatter.
      • FINALLY I’m thrilled yet celebrating subtly after I upload and hit publish.

       When my work on a book is finished, I’ll smile and tell my hero and his heroine they are ready to go out into the world. I will literally miss them when it’s over. This is why I write a series. I get to see them again.

       

      Mary J McCoy-Dressel, Western Romance Blog Post Celebration when completing a novel.

      One thing I do is give myself a silent praise or a pat on the back when I finish the first draft. I mention it on social media, email or text my friends and family, but other writers understand it better than even best friends. However, family and friends are happy for my accomplishment. After publication and while out, I want to scream, “I published another book!”

      Celebration is simple because I feel like I’m on a timeline and need to get the next book started and written as soon as possible. Book sales are my survival. Book writing is my sanity.

      With my next book, which is the third book in a spin off series, Canyon Junction: Hearts in Love Series, I DO PLAN on gathering my friends and celebrating together. Oh, and to get a mani-pedi.

      Mary J McCoy-Dressel, western romance, guilty pleasures blog post

      Thanks for reading.


      This is the time to hop on over to check out the #MFRWauthor Blog to find other participating authors. See ya next time.

      Photo credits: Pixabay.

      Posted in #AmWriting, #MFRWauthor | 12 Comments | Tagged #AmWriting, #MFRWauthor, #WritersLife, Authors Life, blog hop, Canyon Junction: Hearts in Love Series, Celebrating in Stages: Farewell My Lovelies, editor, First drafts, formatting, Marketing for Romance Writers 52-Week Blog Challenge, publiching, relaxing my way, Romance
    • Relaxing, My Way

      Posted at 11:36 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on January 29, 2012

      Today I couldn’t come up with my own idea for a brain dump. Imagine that. Who can’t do a five minute brain dump after a whole week of STUFF happening? So, I’m borrowing Fadra’s prompt today about a detail describing a way I like to relax. Here I go with one of the ways–

      When I want to relax, it usually involves a romantic comedy on TV. I’ve gotten into watching TV again. For many previous years I didn’t, and that’s a whole other brain dump. I must have been really relaxed over the Christmas holidays because I bombarded myself with watching the Hallmark  and Hallmark Movie channels and the Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Channels. They had so many cute Christmas themed shows and I enjoyed each and every one. I actually long for the romantic comedy now since Lifetime usually has movies along the lines of women’s fiction or drama and when I want to relax, I don’t want to have to figure out a crime or what will happen next. I only want to be entertained.

      I’ll pour a glass of wine, or make some popcorn; sometimes both, or just have nothing but the movie and remote. If all else fails and I can’t find something I’m in the mood for, I can stick a DVD in the player and have at it with my own choice of movie, relax, take a deep breath, and be carried away with something that isn’t even close to my own reality. Escaping is what you might call my way of relaxing, but it helps and makes it easier to fall asleep with my heated blanket, and peaceful thoughts to chase away the nightmares.

      This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

      • Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
      • Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
      • Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
      • Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
      • Link up your post below.
      • Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

      Now…

      1. Grab the button

      (it’s over in the sidebar)

      2. Write your post.

      3. Link up here. All Things Fadra

      Posted in Uncategorized | 12 Comments | Tagged all things fadra, movies, relaxing my way, romantic comedy
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