Eye Candy and Starting Stories

Good morning Friday! Lets start today with some eye candy! YUMMY

I really want to know where those hands are! *fans herself* This man rocks my world!





So I started a new novel yesterday. I was on my way to work when the imagine came to me. It was just that simple. And while I have many ideas for different stories they don't get written down until I find out how they begin.

For many authors, the beginning is the hardest part. I can see where they are coming from because without that strong start your readers are going to drop the book like a ton of bricks.

So far all my novels have started while I'm in my car. Maybe because at those times I was alone with the music playing. It's much easier to get things done when the three kids aren't in the car touching one another, fighting about Punch Buggies and talking over each other. LOL

So how to start a story? Well... I guess it depends on what you're writing about. I like to start mine with some kind of conflict. Whether between two characters or with themselves. My first novel, Divine Turmoil, started with Serena arguing with herself about having to move home. (She really didn't want to do that.) My second, Divine Redemption, begins with a defining moment and a gun shot. This latest adventure, and dare I say I already love it, begins with a woman starting a new job. She's now a manager at a bar-n-grill and her new boss is showing her around. When they get to her office she's surprised to find a man snoring on her couch in only boxers. Hee hee hee. He's hung over and can't find his clothes! These characters grew into fun sarcastic people which I enjoyed to a point that my eyes began to cross and my fingers started to cramp.With 4,600 words written I had to call it a night. I can't wait to find out today what is going to happen next.

How do you start your stories? Is there a formula you follow? Lets share. :)

Have a Sparkling Day!
Rebecca Rose

Review: Nothing But Sex

Welcome to Review Wednesday! Today we have the erotic romance Nothing But Sex by Fran Lee. This tantalizing story is a standalone in the Cougar Challenge Series.

Lee Blackhorse scoffed at the challenge to become a cougar by her friends at Tempt the Cougar. As a forty-two-year-old woman who's feeling defeated and used up by her ex, Lee feels she has no right to be looking in the directions of Mike Running Elk; her weekend helper since he was eighteen. In tight t-shirts and jeans, Mike is the vision Lee sees in everyone of her fantasies. 

Mike Running Elk is a man on a mission. For the past twelve years he has remained working for Lee even though he's more than financially sound. She's the woman of his dreams and when he finds his opportunity to show Lee just what he's been fantasying about doing to her, he takes the challenge with hot seeded desire. But Mike now has to convince Lee he wants to give her more than one night of erotic wild passion and that their growing relationship is more than Nothing But Sex!

Ms. Lee, I thank you for your Cougar Challenge! Knowing a few Cougars I have to say your depiction of their uncertainty is right on. The book is emotionally charged with her dirt ball ex showing up. This awful excuse of a man adds to the realism of the story and helps the reader to understand why Lee is so timid with Mike, yet strong when it comes to her life and standing on her own. Mike is a wonderful male specimen who believes in tradition and being a one-woman-man. Plus, he's hot beyond belief and makes any woman reading this full bodied tale want a piece of his... sorry... my imagination is getting away with me.  LOL

Congratulation Fran Lee on Four Blue Roses!
WARNING: M/F romance, anal sex, a physical altercation, and delicious erotic fun with waffles
Fran Lee's website  http://fran-lee-romance.angelfire.com/