Catherine Herzog

Honestly, I write in a hybrid journaling style. My emotions direct what scene I am going to work on until it is editing mode. Then I go from the swing by the seat of my feelings to using my outline and timeline and almost type A personality. Editing is hard for me. Building a story is much easier. My oldest daughter is just the opposite and so she will go over everything I edited and tell me everything that's wrong! I love it because she sees what I don't and her knit picking betters my writing. Sometimes as I am working on a scene I think of how she would see it and then change it to get it closer. From editing we go to proofing-- That is my daughter's total strength, but we both go through with a fine tooth comb. Still we miss things so then I have other readers go over my manuscript. With The Key To Her Heart I had 8 beta readers. So I guess that is the whole process.

No. I remember the stories my dad read to me every night when I was a kid and I couldn't get enough. I lived for them. I didn't begin reading well until I was around 11 or 12 because I struggled with Dyslexia. Finally in 7th grade the school put me in a special reading class. The teacher used poetry to gain my interest, and the next step was writing poetry. I was hooked. Reading became my life and anything I could get my hands on I read.