Alright, right off the bat...I gotta tell you, I don't have a release date for WM18@L...yet. **grumble**grumble** (feel free
to replace previous grumblings with your personal words).
I feel this book
(WM2) is much more of a hurry up and wait game. I gotta say, the “hurry up and
wait” aspect of publishing this book, sucks. I want to come up with a date, I
want to tell you, it is perfect, done, and ready. Because I know there are hundreds
of people waiting to find out about Wilson and Max. I know where I left you,
and I know how hard it can be to wait and see. It’s disheartening to keep
telling you, my most amazing readers, to be patient. I feed off your energy and the anticipation that's building through all of your reviews and emails. I wish I could give you the inside scoop of the exact day it will be released, but I am waiting just like you.
I have so much love for all of you, and totally wish I could tell you what you want to hear,
but I can’t. There are some aspects that effect the release of the
book. So we are in the waiting process. But I promise you, WM18@L is completely written, and it has been edited twice. I have some small tweaks I have to make to the content and then meet again with the graphic designer to finish up the cover.
NOT TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT BUT…
Trust me; I know how you feel having to wait, because that’s
how I write. When I sit down at the computer I have no idea what journey Wilson
and Max will go on until my fingers are tapping on the letters of my keyboard.
I wish I could tell you that I am a plotter, that I know exactly what character
is going where, and what actions, feelings, and events are going to occur from
one chapter to the next, but I don’t. Sometimes I stop mid-paragraph,
mid-sentence, and have to come back when the story decides to continue. I write
from that place of inspiration that decides to turn on in the middle of dinner,
at my son’s basketball game, or even in the middle of the night.
Any writer will tell you, whether they plot or not, you
can’t force the characters to do something they don’t want to do. It will come
out awkward or unbelievable. I can’t sit down and tell Wilson what she and Max
are supposed to do. She will argue until I see it her way (and just so you
know…Wilson always win—always). Sometimes when I want to protect her or the
other characters I will try and write it from a safer place or a different
direction and sure as sh*t, they’ll flat out ignore me. When the characters
decide to do something I would personally never do, I find myself pacing the
floor, arguing with them. My body begins to perspire and my heart thunders in
the back of my throat. I guess that’s when I know it is authentic. Eventually,
I find myself tapping the keys and writing exactly what Wilson asked me to in
the first place.
Even though I know what happens next, I struggle with waiting
just as much as my readers. I know, I know…I can hear what you’re saying, “Come
on Gretch, you have no idea how we feel. You have Wilson and Max in your head
all the time!” Actually, I don’t. They aren’t hanging out telling me what is
going on. Heck, it would make writing their story a lot easier if they were. But
like you, I have to wait and see what they are willing to share with me.
Wilson Mooney, Eighteen at Last…Coming REALLY soon, sometime in 2012.
With So Much Love and Gratitude,
Gretchen
Can't wait :D
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