Amanda Hocking

I cut 3.5K words from my book and rearranged my chapters in hopes of making the book more fast paced and enticing. Did I succeed? Doubtful.

Why did I wrote this book, tho?
-I like writing
-I really really really wanna get published
-I like everything in the book

If this book were a song, it would be called “A Few of My Favorite Things.” But it wouldn’t be in The King and I.

Look, I’ve read a lot of vampire books and teen books, and I think they talk down to the audience. I wanted to write something that stayed true to the things they enjoyed (i.e. boys, money, sex) but that wasn’t so stupid or contrived. I wanted something smart and funny, but still attract that same girl that’s obsessing over Twilight and Gossip Girl.

But I also wanted to write something for people like me. People who really really enjoy Molly Ringwald, but really really enjoyed Not Another Teen Movie when they made of fun how tragically unique she was. You get what I’m saying?

I love Twilight, but it had some issues. I wanted to mock it and stay true to it. That’s a very fine line to walk.

Did I do it? Only time will tell.

Trying to edit my book. Difficult. More difficult than I originally thought.

It would probably easier if I either A) had somebody to help and bounce ideas off, or B) just sat down and did instead of writing about how I should be writing.

What is that quote? Talking about music is like dancing about architecture? Writing about writing is like that too. Except not.

It’s neat cause I got to create my own vampire mythos. And it’s as follows:
-they can’t drink animal blood (take that Stephanie Meyer and Anne Rice – it’s stupid!!!)
-they’re tan (melanin is fancy)
-they have sharp incisors but not fangs exactly
-they’re not cold, but they’re not warm either
-they’re superior in strength, mental abilities, speed, etc.
-they heal super quick
-they release sexy endorphins

I think that’s it. I don’t know. This is hard.

You know what? I’m just gonna do it. It’s already eleven. I’ve killed an hour with nothing. I need to just do this. And I will. And you’ll all like it.

So this is my first unnecessary post on yet another unnecessary site that allows me to express my thoughts on things most people don’t.

But really, I’m trying to create a high class site in hopes that it can generate excitement around my writing and my book, My Blood Approves.

I’m currently making some edits on. I’ve decided (along with my teacher Tricia Johnson) that it moves too slowly at the beginning. So I’m trying to speed it up, by making edits.

Eventually, once I make the changes I need to make, I’ll post some links for it.

I don’t really know what I should I say on a professional site for writing. Obviously, I should talk about my book. But what is there to say?

After recently watching the hit film Scream 2 (the best in the Scream franchise perhaps?), I was thinking about my book. I think what I was attempting to do with my book (not necessarily succeeded at) was what Kevin Williamson did with Scream in comparison with other slasher flicks. He made them smart, self-aware, witty, but they were respectful and abided by the rules of the predecessors. That’s what I wanted to do with My Blood Approves in comparison with Twilight and all the other vampire romance cluttering the book shelves.

Was I successful? You tell me, folks that actually read my book. All three of you. Well… how many people have read my book now? Wow. Seven people. That’s the most anyone has ever read anything I wrote ever. For true.

So that is exciting. And they all loved it. Supposedly.

At any rate, I think this concludes my first post.