Today, I have a special guest!
Emerald Barnes is doing a blog tour to promote her beautiful new book covers.
She stopped by A Room to Write to talk with us about 'writing from the heart.'
Emerald Barnes is doing a blog tour to promote her beautiful new book covers.
She stopped by A Room to Write to talk with us about 'writing from the heart.'
Writing from the heart is important. I think that we need to write things that are important to us. They’re the stories that we hold dearest to us. The stories that we can’t get out of our heads. These stories will be what captures the attention of readers. Why do I feel this way? Because if something is important to us, it’s something that we will pour our passions into. It will be something that people take notice of.
There have been stories that I wanted to write, but I didn’t have a burning passion at the time to see the words written out. And every time that I would work on those stories, I’d get the “writing blahs.” I wouldn’t want to write. I wouldn’t want to plot. I didn’t want to do anything, so eventually, I’d stop writing. When I read back over the words that I’d written, I wasn’t feeling the story.
So, I’d start writing on a story that had been consuming my mind. Things I thought were just an idea and that I’d get to it later, but that story had other plans. It needed to be written. It had to be written. So I wrote it. The words fell out of my brain and onto the paper easily. I fell in love with my protagonists. I hated my antagonists. These weren’t stories. These were actual beings, actual situations coming to life. And it was received better than the stories I thought I had wanted to write. These were the stories that came from the heart.
Try to listen to what’s on your heart. If you’re struggling with writing the right story, listen to your heart, not your head. Not what society wants you to write. This is you. And if you write what you’re passionate about, then everything will turn out like it should. What’s your heart telling you to write today?
About Emerald Barnes:
Emerald Barnes graduated with a B.A. in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women. She resides in a small town in Mississippi and has the accent to prove it.
She mainly writes suspense/thrillers in the YA genre, but she dabbles in other genres and her books are enjoyed by all ages! She's constantly working on new novels and has more ideas than she knows what to do with.
She blogs at emeraldbarnes.blogspot.com and ebarnes23.wordpress.com which takes up more of her time than she anticipates but loves it so very much! She's also a volunteer at the World Literary Cafe which is so amazing!
She's an auntie to two beautiful nieces and two handsome nephews (and another unknown gender coming by the end of 2013) who take up the other half of her time, but she couldn't imagine spending her time in any other way!
She's a Whovian, a little bit of a nerd, a reader, a writer, and a family-oriented person. God is number one in her life, and she thanks Him continuously for His love and favor.
Alexia Wheaton’s problems go far beyond picking a dress and a date for the homecoming dance.
For seven years, Alex has lived with a painful memory - the memory of her parents' horrific murder. As the sole witness, she has kept quiet about the identity of the murderer to protect herself and her family and friends, but when a journalist over hears her secret and writes about it in the local newspaper, Alex is plagued with fear that her parents' murderer will soon find her - and silence her forever.
Alex is catapulted into a race against time to save her own life and bring her parents' murderer to justice. She will face many secrets, lies, and betrayals before the truth about their murder is revealed.
Read Me Dead
It’s on the edge of her memory--like a word on the tip of her tongue, but Kandi can’t remember what it is to save her life.
Despite being a cop, Jimmy can’t protect Kandi from the one thing that haunts her. She’s in danger and doesn’t even know it. After it happened, her brain repressed her memories of the accident, and now, she’s taking a Biology class under a man who wants to see her dead. The memories have started coming back, and it feels like she’s miles away from him. How can he protect her when she doesn’t even know she needs protecting?
Can these characters pierce their way through the darkness?
Piercing Through the Darkness
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