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In the years that followed, she realized that she could increase her productivity by plotting.

Because she had spent so many years contemplating her stories, she had no problem keeping track of her characters and their attributes. She loved the approach because it made the writing process more enjoyable. When she was first starting, Lindsay Buroker wrote by the seat of her pants. In a good year, the author will write and publish ten novels over 12 months. Once her career took off, the author increased her production rate, jumping from one novel in seven years to one novel in a month. All that changed when she realized that she could succeed on her own by self-publishing her novels.

She was convinced that she needed one to sell her books. Like most authors, Buroker was determined to find an agent. At one point, after realizing that she hated the ending, she rewrote the entire second half. She also used the critique she received, and the lessons she learned from the workshops she attended to refine certain sections. It took Buroker a long time to write it because she did not work consistently. It wasn’t the first manuscript she had ever written, merely the first one to be published. It took her seven years to complete her first manuscript. During her first few blogging years, Buroker decided to hone her craft by enrolling in a creative writing workshop on the internet. She had spent her entire life starting books and then failing to complete them. But she found a program she could use to dictate her work.īy this point in time, the author was already writing novels. The activity became a challenge down the line once the pain in the author’s hands became a serious hindrance. At the time (2003), Buroker had a string of health issues that had complicated the process of finding and keeping a conventional job.īlogging was her only option. When she left the army, the author found that blogging was the one career she could pursue from the comfort of her home. Even though she knew from a young age that she wanted to write fiction, Buroker meandered quite a bit, trying her hand at various jobs, including working as a lifeguard, joining the US army (though she has no combat experience), and filling the position of a systems administrator. Eventually, she started writing them down. By the time she was six, Buroker had gone from reading stories to telling stories.