Amy Fellner Dominy, Award-Winning Author of Tween/Teen Novels
Amy Fellner Dominy, Award-Winning Author of Tween/Teen Novels
You can’t write a good love scene while worrying what your dad will think.
You can trust me on this — it’s why I gave up writing adult romances.
Now, maybe you’re not worrying about your dad, but chances are someone has gotten into your head about what your story should be, how you should write it, what the market wants, blah blah blah. And here’s what you’ve got to say to that person or those people: GET. OUT. You’ve got to clear your head of all the people in there who are messing with your story. And there are probably a few of them:
Craziness. That’s the only way to describe the feeling. Like I’m on an out-of-control ferris wheel and I’m flying in circles…so many ups and downs and the world spinning out of control. Also the felling that I either want to scream or puke. Or both. (But hopefully not at the same time.)
But I digress. There’s just one month left until my book debuts and I’m constantly struggling with the fear that there’s something I’m not doing. Something I was supposed to do. Something I wish I hadn’t done.
