Seasonal Writing - Romance Writers Weekly - #lovechatwrite

​Do the seasons affect your writing? Tell us how.

Boy howdy, do they! But maybe not in the way you’d expect.

You’d think I’d get a lot of writing done in the winter. The days are colder and shorter and we spend more time indoors. But my energy is also lower, and it is more of a slog to get going.

I love spring, when the weather is finally warm enough to write outside. Taking my laptop away from my desk always gives me a boost. The ideas start to flow fast and fierce.

As for summer, I always have high hopes. I can write in our backyard and the days are long enough I can still enjoy the sun even when I spend hours at my computer. I plan to get lots of words in when we go camping, away from the distractions of everyday. That doesn’t always pan out, though!

Fall is another boost for me. September often feels more like a new year than January does. I make goals and plans for darker months.

In the end, I probably do the least amount of work in the summer, though I have the most energy and set higher goals. Winter is my most productive, if I am counting words, though it often doesn’t feel like it.

What about you? Do the seasons affect your creativity? Let me know in the comments, then hop over to Jenna Da Sie.

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Have you read my gold rush mystery, RICHLY DESERVED, yet?

​You can read an excerpt here!

More than twenty years ago, Claudia Aronson escaped an abusive marriage. She built a secure, stable life, and is now only weeks away from realizing a long-held dream—opening her own art gallery. But her well-ordered world is threatened by the compelling, abrasive man essential to bringing her new venture into the spotlight.

Artist Titus Wilcox is reclusive, nomadic, and passionate. His solitary, drifting habits have fed his creative soul, but played hell with his love life. Soon after he meets the statuesque, seemingly-serene Claudia, however, he feels a compulsion to paint a new reality—with her.

When an antique painting reveals mysterious documents concealed behind its frame, Titus and Claudia unite in a hunt for lost riches—a pursuit that takes them into the remote hills surrounding the fabled gold rush town of Barkerville.

To these two skeptics, true love is as phony as fool’s gold. But this improbable search for buried treasure could lead to their hearts’ hidden desires.