Storytelling or Analyzing?

Updates

Annabelle’s story has been line edited! I’ll be sending it off to beta readers this week and I have a proofread scheduled for the last week of August.

I’ll be focusing on writing Ansel and Gretchen’s story next, which will be book six in the Tales of Winberg series.

After that…I think I might do another contemporary.

Storytime

I had a profound revelation about myself this last week. I’ve always known that my husband and I think differently. He sees details. I see the whole picture. He likes all the facts and figures. I’m more interested in the emotion.

When it comes to looking back at experiences that we’ve had, he has a tendency to want to pick things apart and analyze what worked and what didn’t work. Then he’ll ask me to do the same, but that’s hard for me. I don’t want to pick it apart. I want to be content with the experience as a whole.

So as I was thinking through the ups and downs of why analyzing things feels uncomfortable for me, I realized that when it comes to experiences, I see them as stories.

For me, the experience wasn’t a bunch of small parts that I can sift through and separate from one another. It’s a whole story, and if you take one chapter or one scene out of a book, you don’t get the whole picture, and you can’t appreciate the arc and the characters and how one event sends ripples throughout and contributes to the whole.

It was a lightbulb moment for me, and it’s allowed me to understand myself better. It’s okay that I don’t want to analyze something. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to share the experience, it just means I want to tell you the whole beautiful narrative instead of taking it apart and sharing this bit and that bit.

Let me tell you a story. Because I’m a storyteller.

Clean Romance Highlights

Her Accidental Frog by Eliza Prokopovits is a YA Regency retelling of The Frog Prince.

After an unprecedented and regrettable drunken duel, Nathaniel Johnson wakes up in the Serpentine… as a frog. His only hope of rescue is the girl he’s secretly loved for years: his best friend’s little sister.

Bookbub Recommendations

I have a couple more clean romance authors you might be interested in following on Bookbub!

The first is Alana Highbury who writes holiday romances and Austen-inspired novels.

The second is TJ Amberson who focuses of hearts, humor, and heroes!