The
Poet of the Heart
by
LaNona Walker
Genre:
Poetry
People
can fade away, rose petals can be crushed and things can be lost, but
at least you’ll remember how it was. The Poet of The Heart is a
poetry collection that touches everything the heart can feel, hope
for, cherish, and even regret. In a collection of poems ranging from
romantic to heart-wrenching, LaNona Walker dives into her passions
and writes from the heart. Fragmented pieces of dreams and losses
combine to bring you a touching series of stories that have deeper
meanings in their rhymes and lyrics.
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LaNona
Walker is
a book-aholic and major coffee drinker. When she’s not
jotting stories down or getting lost in books, she can be found
baking delicious treats while jamming to music or re-watching movies
(mostly Marvel) with her Pug. Or getting dragged away from a
bookstore by family members and friends.
GUEST POST
Every
writer is different, and that's something it took me a while to
learn... I had to experiment and figure out what worked best for me
and my writing projects. Depending on the writing project I will
either write it in several notebooks or I will type it up on my
computer and then revise it in a separate file. Sometimes I
have a notebook filled with stuff for the project, but the draft is
on the computer. I have multiple projects, but I try to really only
work on one at a time.
I
know other authors can do three different books at the same time
going, but sadly I can't. (Probably why it takes me a bit longer.)
My
process and daily writing routine really stays the same but does
change here and there for each project. There was one project several
years back, that every day I would wake up early and write at my
living room window with my pug and morning coffee for an hour or two
in a notebook. That particular project ended up going on the
backburner...
There
was one project where I stayed up until 2 am every night writing when
my family was asleep, with coffee that I probably shouldn't have had
that late, and I just listened to my playlist with headphones and
wrote. (Scared myself countless times, because there were scary
scenes in the book.)
So
I try to write every day, I use very vague outlines and character
descriptions as I write, and I drink lots of coffee and listen
to a playlist as I write. That's my process and daily writing life!
On
average for writing a book, I'd say the first draft can take anywhere
from 6 months to a year. Then from there, it depends on what you do
next. And it varies per project. One you might wait a month and then
do the second draft of. There's one book where I drafted the whole
series altogether and had to split them up as the second draft. Then
revising can take a few months, as well as getting feedback from Beta
Readers or Critique Partners. The editing also depends, because you
can be your editor or someone else could be.
There's
a lot of different factors into how long it takes to write a book.
For me, there was one book I wrote in a whole 12 months-period (it
was crap, and terrible to edit). And there've been books (like the
one I have coming out next year) that took three years because I
messed up and wrote it and it's sequel together and had to separate
them...
The
Poet of The Heart was probably the easiest project so
far; the editing wasn't as hard as others, the writing didn't take
hours to perfect, and then the revising didn't kill me! So it's a
good child! Lol :)
Thanks
for reading!!
~LaNona
Walker
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