Lucynda Storey-Erotic Romance Writer

Today I’m posting an interview with author Kelley Heckart.  Kelley is a true western author having lived in the real west a good part of her life.  Kelley presents a picture of her writing life.  You’ll note it is a little different from some of the other interviews I’ve posted.   Some of you may despair that you can’t possibly do everything everyone else is doing AND be prolific, professional and proficient.

Don’t stress on it.  Everyone finds their own way through the writing maze to publication.  Some of the journeys are remarkably similar while others seem as if they can be in no way related to what you are going through.  But, within each interview you just may find a golden nugget that helps you across the next hurdle in your path.

These interviews are to show readers that there are many different avenues to a successful career as a fiction author!  Someday, maybe you’ll be interviewed here!

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Hi Lucynda,

Thanks for interviewing me. I was born in Wyoming, but have lived all over the U.S. and now call Arizona my home. My writing name is Kelley Heckart.

1.) How long have you been seriously writing?

I have been serious about my writing for about eight years.

2.) How many hours a day do you spend working on your stories?

I usually spend eight hours a day working on writing, but most of it seems to be promotional stuff and not actual writing.

3.) What is your self-editing process?

I usually go through at least five drafts of a manuscript before I decide it’s ready. Then do searches on common overused words and on words I feel I might have overused. The main searches I do are on ‘was’ and ‘were’ and try to eliminate some of these to make the story more showing rather than telling. I have a list of things I look at-checking for compelling openings, strong verbs, use of five senses, showing vs. telling, unnecessary words, varied sentence structure and expanded moments. Read the rest of this entry »