Inside the Mind of the Author – Pepper Winters @PepperWinters

Monday, November 4, 2013

Inside the Mind of the Author

Want a sneak peek into my mind? Well, when I’m writing it’s dark and twisted and full of the tortures that I put my characters through before giving them a Happy Ever After.

The moment I pressed publish the nerves crippled me. I let so-so reviews crush me and forgot that a lot of people loved my work and not to focus on the ones who didn’t.

It’s a total mind game—you have to have complete faith in what you’re doing is your dream as it isn’t a quick few hours a day profession. Nope, writing is fulltime, 24-7 job and it better be a passion as if it isn’t, it won’t last.

I found the moment I published my work load tripled with responding to fan mail and keeping up my other commitments, all while trying to write as much as I did before.

But no matter how hard writing is… it’s the best career of my life and I wouldn’t do anything else J