This was so touching! And so beautifully written. We do learn with our children, which is heartbreaking but also wonderful. I always tell my son that this is my first time through life too.
This is so beautiful. Like anything worth doing, the process is the key. Thanks for sharing your inspiring thoughts! Needed to hear this today! Looking forward to your Selkie novels! 💗
So much wisdom in this post, and so beautifully written. I needed the reminder that we are made through the process of doing, not by having everything in place in advance. Thank you Hadas💜I wish you & your books all the best.
Thanks so much for reading! Absolutely--having everything in place just feels like a myth to me. I appreciate your well wishes very much. Same to you <3
As usual, I have so very, very many thoughts, most swirling about like a hurricane in my mind, but one, seemingly unrelated, hovers in my mind and I feel I must ask it or else go mad from wondering. Why spice? Why emphasis on the prurient? Romance, I can understand and even support. But... why spice?
As usual, I am curious about ALL your thoughts! But I appreciate this question. It's not such a complicated answer. I enjoy reading it, so I thought I might enjoy writing it, too. It turns out I do. I've taken writing so seriously for so long. At some point in the recent past I decided to get back to writing for the joy of it, and this has become part of that. Granted, my kind of spice is almost certainly more mild than you might think. And it's never purely prurient or spice for the sake of spice. It's not explicit, anatomical descriptions or dirty talk lol. It's intimate and mythic and always moves the plot or reveals something about the story's deeper themes. I *could* reveal these truths without heat but in my gut I'd know I was avoiding it just out of fear, at least in the case of this book and these characters. My last book wasn't spicy and I think that worked for what I was trying to achieve. But with this one, it's darker and heavier and more charged in every way. My goal is to enjoy every minute of writing it and to show the characters in their truest, most intimate states of being.
This was so touching! And so beautifully written. We do learn with our children, which is heartbreaking but also wonderful. I always tell my son that this is my first time through life too.
Thank you so much for reading and resonating! Yes--I tell my son something very similar! <3
Soooo beautiful, Hadas. Thank you for this reflection. Keep going keep going!
love you em!!
There's potency in process. Thank you for the lesson in readiness, in acceptance. Much love my friend 🙏🏼
Much love back. Thanks for reading Nick. It means so much :)
This is so beautiful. Like anything worth doing, the process is the key. Thanks for sharing your inspiring thoughts! Needed to hear this today! Looking forward to your Selkie novels! 💗
Thank you so much Jan! That means the world to me! I'm so glad it felt timely for you <3
This is so inspirational!!!! Beautifully said.
Aw thanks so much for reading! I’m always inspired by you <3
So much wisdom in this post, and so beautifully written. I needed the reminder that we are made through the process of doing, not by having everything in place in advance. Thank you Hadas💜I wish you & your books all the best.
Thanks so much for reading! Absolutely--having everything in place just feels like a myth to me. I appreciate your well wishes very much. Same to you <3
As usual, I have so very, very many thoughts, most swirling about like a hurricane in my mind, but one, seemingly unrelated, hovers in my mind and I feel I must ask it or else go mad from wondering. Why spice? Why emphasis on the prurient? Romance, I can understand and even support. But... why spice?
As usual, I am curious about ALL your thoughts! But I appreciate this question. It's not such a complicated answer. I enjoy reading it, so I thought I might enjoy writing it, too. It turns out I do. I've taken writing so seriously for so long. At some point in the recent past I decided to get back to writing for the joy of it, and this has become part of that. Granted, my kind of spice is almost certainly more mild than you might think. And it's never purely prurient or spice for the sake of spice. It's not explicit, anatomical descriptions or dirty talk lol. It's intimate and mythic and always moves the plot or reveals something about the story's deeper themes. I *could* reveal these truths without heat but in my gut I'd know I was avoiding it just out of fear, at least in the case of this book and these characters. My last book wasn't spicy and I think that worked for what I was trying to achieve. But with this one, it's darker and heavier and more charged in every way. My goal is to enjoy every minute of writing it and to show the characters in their truest, most intimate states of being.