Before February 2009 C.J. had absolutely no experience in writing - other than in business and basic email communication. She’s probably the least experienced writer she knows. In the spring of 2008, C.J. started undergoing some medical tests for some issues she’d been ignoring for a few years. We’ve all done it - ignored a problem we hoped would go away because our lives were too busy to give any attention to some small minor inconvenience.
Tests led to more tests and answers started to slowly trickle in. To keep her mind off of all that she couldn’t do and to focus on what she could do, she started writing in February 2009. A lover of books for decades, she owes her husband, Pete, her main writing buddy and many close friends a big hug of thanks for thinking she should even attempt to write a book.
In five months C.J. has managed to: Write her first 90,000-word Urban Fantasy novel, join several writing guilds and writing sites, start a fan page on Facebook, enter several writing contests and become a finalist in most of them, attend her first National writing conference and learn a lot about how to write. Who knew it could take so much work and still be so much fun?
Want to read behind the scenes? Check out C.J.'s Guest Blog spot on Frightening Journeys May 8, 2009 or Why I write.
Links to more sites you can find C.J. on the web:
- Wicked Writers
- Facebook Fan Page
- Twitter
- C.J.'s Daily Grind on Blogspot
- Writing Portfolio on writing.com
- NaNoWriMo profile - join me and write a novel in November!
- Wicked Writers
- Facebook Fan Page
- C.J.'s Daily Grind on Blogspot
- Writing Portfolio on writing.com
- NaNoWriMo profile - join me and write a novel in November!
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