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NEWSLETTER UPDATE<\/h3>\n

Just an FYI, due to computer issues, I lost the list of my newsletter subscribers. If you were on it and would like to continue to receive it, please send me another email… shilohnews@insightbb.com <\/del>\u00a0newsletter link in sidebar as of 2011. \u00a0Please subscribe there.<\/p>\n

And onto today’s post…<\/h4>\n

One line I see when I’m doing my various procrastinating<\/s> bloghopping<\/s> uh… working, yeah, we’ll call it working, is this…<\/p>\n

Well, I like her but she’ll never be another…<\/em>(fill in the blank).<\/p>\n

It’s a line that as a reader confuses me. As a writer, I shrug it off. As competitive as I am, and trust me, I’m seriously competitive, I don’t want to be another anybody. I just want to write the best book that I can. I want to be the best writer I can be. So when I see it, the writer in me shrugs it off. I want to be as good as I can be. I don’t want to compare myself to another writer.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong~I so wish I could have been the genius that came up with Eve\/Roarke<\/a> or Cherijo\/Duncan<\/a>. But I wasn’t the genius and instead of trying to do something similar, I’d rather come up with my own brand of genius. (Hey, a girl can hope, right?)<\/p>\n

The writer in me shrugs it off. But the reader in me gets confused and I mean seriously<\/em> confused.<\/p>\n

I adore the Stardoc<\/em> books. I’ll push them on anybody who will listen to me and I’ve convinced some people who’ve never looked at science fiction to give them a try. I simply adore the books. When the series comes to an end, you shall hear a wail of mourning from the central US and it will be me.<\/p>\n

But as much as I love them, I don’t want to find \u2018another’ SL Viehl. One thing that makes her Stardoc<\/em> books so fantastic is that they are unique.<\/p>\n

Likewise on JD Robb and the Eve Dallas books. I love that series. But I don’t want another JD Robb cropping up.<\/p>\n

The uniqueness of something is what makes it special~now granted, that might come from a lifetime of being told I’m not weird<\/em>…I’m unique<\/em>. Trust me, I’m weird, but I’m cool with that.<\/p>\n

It’s kind of like…I dunno, chocolate. If you aren’t a chocolate addict, then fill in whatever food is your dream food. As much as you love it, imagine a diet of nothing but that. Ever. I think I’d rather never have chocolate again than to exist on nothing but<\/em> chocolate.<\/p>\n

It’s the same with books. If every book out there was similar, then nothing would stand out.<\/p>\n

Nothing would be special.<\/p>\n

And it would all get very, very boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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