The Unknown

I've been trying different things attempting to take The Unknown in a different direction. If I decide I'm not pleased I will be doing a major rewrite.

Winners are!

We apologize for the delay, it seems that we had some technical difficulties on our behalf. The winners of My First Kill drawing are as follow: Staten Sobers,  Mek-Mek Godsmakingallmydreamscometrue Graham, Jennifer Messinger, Kera Johnson, and Jessica Nash Leisenring. Please contact the author directly to let her know when and where you would like it sent or when and where you would like to meet up. All we ask is that you would be willing to take a picture with your copy for a chance to win the second book of this series,  The Unknown.  Congratulations everyone and thank you for all of your support. If you already have a copy and would like to give your book to someone else the Author will be taking that information. As you can see, we've decided to giveaway five books since there was a delay on our behalf. The next drawing will be announced within the next few weeks. Happy reading to our winners.

Signed: D. Odell's Marketing Team

Greatness

What I look like when my mind is going 130mph

My contest submission

A little case study on how I wrote my book.

I’m a murder mystery writer with ADD (attention deficit disorder). One may think you can never run out of people to kill because of the World that we live in, but to me it’s a lot more to that. There has to be the perfect place, the perfect reason, full blown description, how the murder will happen, and what will the murderer use. I take any ordinary situation and twist it into something that a normal person with a normal mind wouldn’t think to do. I write, no filter, no editing, no direction, I sit, stand, lay, shower, drive (voice text only), I just write. Whatever ends up on the paper, my phone, napkin, paper bag, hand, wall, inside of another book I’m reading, where ever I get an idea I jot it down. The purpose of writing is to get out what’s in my head. I take each and every piece of story or idea and form something around it, I tie it together to a point one will never know that the next chapter was put together by pieces of toilet paper, a paper bag, and a napkin.

After your sixth or seventh murder story, ideas start to run dry. I set myself at a daily writing minimum of two thousand words. Two thousand words per day may not sound like much, but when you don’t have much to write about, it can get pretty hairy. If I can’t come up with anything, I generally call an associate of mine and listen to their problems. Out of nowhere I have at least three plots and extra ideas of how to murder my next victim in my current project. I don’t take what they say and just write it down. Instead, I take their problem, make it worst, add someone that would over exaggerate the problem, and think about the most unimaginable things to do to all parties. If none of my associates are available to rant, I take a trip to the local mall and watch people. You have to find your comfort level, how far are you able to go to envision your story, what lengths are you willing to travel to get to your plot? You don’t want to put yourself in danger of course, because then your story will never be told, well, not by you. As long as you hold up to 2,000 words a day, you book will start to take shape then take on a mind of its own. Just remember, no matter what level of writer you are or what genre, always take a normal situation and twist it. Take two or more situations and tie them together, make it believable but twist it until there’s nothing else you can do but go to the next topic. Put yourself inside of your characters’ shoes and walk their walk. You should feel what they feel (don’t do what they do in reality), even if it’s a romance novel you have to be able to feel it, when you feel it, your readers will feel it. Imagination is everything, happy writing!

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