Secrets of a Writer

 Fiorella will admit it--she wants to know how many followers she has, but has no idea how to find out, but let's face it--if your girl doesn't have much of a following, she'll probably  be unhappy, while if she has big following, she'll probably be nonplussed. No way to win, so Fio will have to go on her same semi-steady way as before. 

Warning: whether  you're a follower of not, if we were friends anywhere along the line, Fio probably has your phone number and maybe your address and birth date too. Yes, once her friend, you're always her friend, as she will always be yours.

Your girl has been going through some papers back from God only knows when and found a few jewels, like, "Here I am, a woman who can't even discuss sex with her gynecologist, writing a romance novel." This is another one (blush): "Basic romance set up: six feet of cardboard  and six inches of solid steel." This one may burn your ears, once you get through laughing: "There's fxxk and there's sxxk. What else can your characters do?"

 Fio is so old that she remember the year nipples were discovered to be erectile, via writer Sandra Brown. The next year, manly bulges were all the rage and each book seemed to be 220 pages of slow-motion demonstrations. Of course, the authors all used pen names--an obvious one being Bess T Seller (giggle), but some of the book covers were so graphic that your girl didn't want to be seen with the book in hand wouldn't buy it.

Of course, Fiorella, who always had kids hanging over her shoulder, had to be very careful when she herself was--uh--erecting passionate love scenes, and she always had to make sure her early drafts didn't make it into the family trash can.

FINAL WORD: As as a writer, you have to develop a thick skin because you'll get rejected a lot, which has more to do with what the publisher is looking for rather than your writing.