Finish The Book With Robin Gianna & Giveaways!

Author Robin Gianna shares about Finishing The Book. She comes with Giveaways!

FINISH THE BOOK

Those three words were one of the most important pieces of writing advice I heard while I learned the craft of fiction writing.  They were also words I managed to ignore for a long time. 

I read that advice in books on writing.  Speakers emphasized it at workshops.  Writers in my RWA chapter agreed.  I particularly remember one workshop led by successful author.  She said she’d written partial manuscripts of something like ninety stories that she’d started and never finished before she finally realized she’d never get published if she kept going that same route.

That number astonished me.  Yet I still, somehow, didn’t take it to heart.  Starting a new story with new characters is a whole lot more fun than slogging through to the end of one you’ve worked on for a long time.  And, like many of us, I had various life issues thrown at me on a regular basis that would cause me to shove a story aside while I dealt with it. Trying to get back into it six months later seemed much harder than just starting fresh with a new one.

I might have ended up with ninety unfinished stories of my own if I hadn’t been lucky enough to be handed a powerful motivation to finally write until I reached ‘The End.‘  After entering a contest and winning, an agent loved the partial and asked to see the full manuscript.  But of course I didn’t have one.  Not even close.  So I yanked up my bootstraps and worked hard to make it happen.  And...surprise!  I learned things from the experience I had never learned writing numerous partials, and could never learn any other way.

 Things like how to truly pull together a story arc that works, and a character arc that’s convincing.  I discovered there are amazing moments where words and events fall onto the page that I had no idea were going to happen.  I learned how to work through those times when I didn’t know what the heck should happen next.  And I learned that a first draft is just a start, and that it always needs a lot more work in revision.

I didn’t sell that book, though after yet another revision, I just might one day.  But it doesn’t really matter.  Because finishing it taught me I could do it, and made me feel proud that I’d reached that milestone.  It motivated me to do it again to see what I’d learn next.  And writing a complete novel was the next, important step toward the goal of publication I’d wanted for so long.

Don’t wait to be motivated by an agent or editor request like I did.  Be motivated by your desire to get better at writing.  If you’re in the midst of a story, keep going and promise yourself you won’t stop.  If you’re not, start one, then run that marathon until you cross the finish line.  It doesn’t have to be good, it just has to be done.  I promise you’ll grow, you’ll be proud, and you’ll want to do it again. 

After completing a degree in journalism, working in the advertising industry, then becoming a stay-at-home mom, Robin Gianna had what she likes to call her ‘awakening’. While on vacation, lying in the sun with a beach read, she realized she wanted to write the romance novels she'd loved since her teens.

 

Robin loves pushing her characters toward their own happily-ever-afters! When she's not writing, Robin's life is filled with a happily messy kitchen, a needy garden, a wonderful husband, three great kids, a drooling bulldog and one grouchy Siamese cat.

 

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FLIRTING WITH DR. OFF-LIMITS

Flirting with the forbidden… 

For intern Dr. Katy Pappas, seeing delectable surgeon Alec Armstrong again is sweet torture! He might have rejected her after their sinfully delicious kiss years before, but he still sets her pulse racing!
Alec is captivated by gorgeous, grown-up Katy. But as his best friend's sister, a colleague and his student, Katy is definitely off-limits! He's made the mistake of mixing business with pleasure before, and he won't risk Katy's career. Yet can he resist the oh-so-wrong when it feels oh-so-right…?

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