a.c.Mason

Mason on writing.

What, you ask? Aren’t they the same. No.

An easy one to use as an example is Buffy in the beginning she was becoming a strong heroine. After she died and they brought her back, remember when she was sleeping with Spike she’d become an anti-heroine. See example of heroine, who started off as a strong heroine and becomes an anti-heroines. Xena was an anti-heroine who became a strong heroine by the end series. Yes, I watched both.  

So you want to write an anti-heroine. I should warn you, the road to publishing isn’t an easy one.  So why make life hard and write a prickly heroine? Okay, I have to say yes to this one too.

The big thing is you need to show the reader she has her reasons for being who she is. Don’t rely on telling the reader and hope they get who she is. Show, show and show some more. You’re job as a writer is to create the context and world in which you can sale whatever hocus-pocus is up your writer’s sleeve. Think of it as you have to show the reader it’s perfectly reasonable because look at this and these things what else could she be? You have to make so crystal clear that any other behavior would be ludicrous.

Last consider your genre. One of the reasons, I like writing paranormal, fantasy and sci-fi is because of the wiggle room for hard as nail heroines and anti-heroines.  

My heroines are mostly Queen Bee of the hive, fighters, independent, elusive and dangerous. Sometimes even out of control.

Kiss,
Mason

Have you heard this before?

It’s true.

It’s about rewriting, well.

We can’t all be Dickens. Thought I can’t say I’d want to be Dickens. Something to get into at later date.

I don’t care how many times, someone told me or I read this fact before I was offered my first contract with Lyrical Press, Inc on the most beautiful morning ever.

I’ve since learned something about myself. I love sculpting my work in a sadistic way. Carving, reworking and chiseling until I have my David. Without all the ing words of course. Smile.

Kiss,
Mason

I’m a writer’s who loves research. It might relate a time in my life when I was a historical interpreter and newsletter editor for a historic site. It definitely has helped me to know what kind of information I’m looking for.

Pet peeve: If you write a historical, get you facts straight. Nothing drives me crazier than bad history, meaning incorrect facts. 

Often when I’m doing research, I fall in love with something new.

Don’t over run your book with facts but make it clear to the reader what the differences are.

Happy fact hunting.

Kiss,
Mason

After months of blindfolds and secrets, after countless encounters without a single word spoken, Dean Lucas knows what his mysterious partner at the adult-only club Entice wants and gives her everything she physically desires. But now, he hungers for more than just her body-he craves her heart, too.

Betrayed by her ex-husband, Zoe Grant has finally found a way to be herself, a way to sate her long-hidden desires-without the risk of another broken heart-and the fact that she doesn’t know the man’s name, has never seen his face, suits her just fine.

But, when the two are unknowingly brought together outside their mutual comfort zone, will Zoe be able to set aside her past and surrender her trust once again-and can Dean convince Zoe, nameless or not, that love knows no bounds?