Megan Hart

Hi, all. I’ve been getting quite a number of hits lately to this blog, so welcome. Thanks for stopping by! (Though if you’re looking for Megan Padalecki, I gotta tell you…I’m still not her and sincerely doubt I ever will be.)

What you will find here — news about my work, blatherings about my work, pictures and video blogs and podcasts and interviews and reviews and snippets of works in progress. Mostly stuff about me, though I will be having a series of minions reporting in very soon.

What you will not find here: Intense personal scrutiny or information about my private home life with my family.  Pleas for attention via despondent, rambling posts about how awful my life is and oh, the woe. (I do delve into the woe sometimes but it’s usually about the writing, not about my personal life.) You won’t find anything much revealing about “me” and my life here that doesn’t have to do with my work. I won’t be sharing with you tidbits on my fight with that man I live with, problems with my kids, arguments with friends, financial worries, my food allergies (if I develop any), my health issues (unless they impact my work somehow). I don’t post about my intimacies here.

Why?Because the world doesn’t really need to know that much about me. You don’t come here to read about my less-than-glamorous lifestyle. And I don’t need to share with anyone the ins and outs of my personal and private life.There’s a lot to learn about me in this blog. What I like, what I don’t. What I’m working on. What I think about things, what I’m doing.

There’s enough here for anyone who’s really interested in the woman behind the writing to learn.But there are some things that simply aren’t appropriate to be put out there for public consumption. I wish the rest of the world understood that!M 

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Megan Hart broken and dirty — wow. I don’t think there are pictures of it anywhere, but you never know.

Megan Hart read online for free - yeah. How about you DON’T steal from me, my publisher, my editor and my agent? K’thanks. I *DO* have a free online read called the Road Taken and it’s also FREE in audible. Other than that, don’t download novels and music and movies from the internet without paying for them, boys and girls. It’s the same as going to the mall and shoplifting it, and if you don’t see it that way, frankly, I’d rather you didn’t read my work.

Mary Hart sex video — Um. No.

Man penatrating cow — Again. No.

Dean Winchester’s Leather jacket — is hanging in my closet, what about it?

Meagan Hart - close but not quite

Barnes and Noble Megan Hart — yep, I’m there!

Megan Hart mouth excerpt — ….huh?And, of course, the inevitable….

Megan Padalecki. I’m still not her. (Though Jared Padalecki has totally swayed me to the Sammyside.) 

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Dean Winchester sex!

Well, hello.

I’m still getting so many hits about Dean Winchester sex it’s not even funny. Why it would be funny, I don’t. But I’m still not Megan Padalecki. Fuhserious, ya’ll. NOT HER.

If you’re here for info on Dirty by Megan Hart, Broken by Megan Hart, Tempted by Megan Hart, this is the right place.

If you’re here for a free online erotic read, I’ve got one of those, too. The Road Taken — check it out!

But if you’re here to get anything else for free, i.e. not paying for it, i.e. STEALING, kindly take yourself off into a corner and hang your head in shame.

That’s all.

M

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I think you are fab.

I wish I watched Grey’s Anatomy so I could’ve seen your gig. I DID watch every episode of Vanished until it…Vanished. Eddie Cibrian? Ain’t no Gale, that’s all I’m saying.

Now I have only one episode of QAF left. One. Only one. Only one more unwatched episode, one more walk down Liberty Avenue, one more visit to the back room of Babylon (well, no more, since it’s not going to be in the last episode.)

I am very sad.

*sigh*

M

PS– AND no more Supernatural for, like…too long? Color me sad.

PPS-  Still not Megan Padalecki. Wish I were. Then I’d get to see Jared (since SPN isn’t on the air right now, I suffer greatly.)

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…sadly, not here.

(Oh, Brandon Routh, how you have infiltrated my mind!)

Dean and Sam Winchester Halloween Costumes I can help you with: For Dean, you need a pair of grungy, beat up jeans with holes in the knees, a faded dark colored t-shirt, a plaid shirt, a battered leather jacket (brown?) with the color up. For Sam you need about ten more inches (height, you dirty minds) and a pair of pretty puppy eyes.

And I’m still not Megan Padalecki.

I do, however, want to make you move because you’re standing still.

For those of you finding me because of those search strings, welcome. I’m Megan Hart the author (not the porn star, or the wrestler or the dancer or the artist.) I write erotic and romantic fiction for Harlequin and Amber Quill Press. My next book comes out in January. It’s called Tempted.

Buy it.

Because even though I’m not having sex with Brandon (gawd…) you might find something you like, anyway!

M

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Maybe it would be a good idea for me to write something writerly, like some advice or something. Or, well, maybe I’m procrastinating. But c’mon, I  get a number of hits to this blog searching for Dean Winchester Sex (and again, I say yes, please!) and Megan Padalecki (still not her) and Freaky Things To Do In Bed (…depends on what you think is freaky, I guess) and Bad Megan (haha, ok. Maybe.)

But what this blog really should be about is writing. I can’t help it that I don’t feel qualified to lecture; I can’t help it if I don’t really want to stroke myself constantly and be a self-promotion hooor. I think I have more to offer this blog than just constant self-gratifying blather about my own awesomeness. Heh.

But today I will talk with you about finding your voice. I have been thinking about this because I am re-reading The Stand. And yes, it’s taking me a long time to get through because it’s freaking a zillion pages long and I only read it in the bathroom. (TMI?) I am also reading The Deathly Hallows while I exercise, so that’s taking a long time to read, too.

Anyway. Voice. I’d mentioned in my earlier post about how SK’s voice is so familiar and so constant that most of his books sound a lot a like. Many of his characters sound a lot alike, too, both internally and in their dialogue. I notice a great difference in Harold Lauder’s speech (haven’t gotten to a section in his POV yet, so I can’t say for sure what his internal monologues  are like.) But mostly everyone else sounds very similar. That’s King’s voice, and it works well for him, obviously, since he’s a bazillionare and I…am not.

When I started writing, lo those many years ago, I am pretty sure I mimicked King’s voice. I had no clue what the down home folksy phrases meant, but dadgummit, I wanted to write like he did. Reading The Stand now, some of those phrases leap out at me because I’ve read them so many times, and I remember wanting to use them in my own stories (even though they didn’t necessarily fit.) I emulated him because I admired him.

I’m pretty sure  I don’t do that any more.

Do I have a voice? I’ve had people who know me and who read my work say they can *hear* me in the writing. I do put a lot of myself in my work, whether it’s pet phrases, or the use of my own experiences (for example, in Catch and Release the characters go to Horror Fest. I’d just gone with my sister when I wrote that.) I can look back at a book and see what was going on in my life at the time by what details I chose to use. But I’m not sure that’s voice.

It’s hard for me to say what my own voice is. You know how you sound different to yourself when you listen to a recording? Reading my work is the same. I know I wrote it, I can remember doing it, but sometimes, I marvel at how it sounds.

Yet I’m sure I have a voice. I know that when I write a book it sounds like me; it sounds like the others I’ve written. I’ve managed to find a way of stringing words together, phrases, cliches and descriptions, that is mine. I know which phrases or descriptions I tend to use in every work — now I have to root them out because they might have been great the first or even second time, but dammit, I don’t want to be too repetitive.

So if I have this voice, how do I make sure that all my characters don’t sound the same? How is the voice of a novel or short story or novella different than the voice of the characters? I guess I try to get inside the heads of the characters, really deep inside. They don’t all think alike, so they shouldn’t all sound alike. And they shouldn’t all sound like me. Men don’t think or talk the way women do. Mothers don’t think or talk the way non-mothers do. Children have their own viewpoints as well. In creating a character I try to figure out how they’d think or feel about something. If I’m writing in that characters’ Point of View (POV) I want to make it sound like they’d think. If they’re talking, I want them to sound the way they’d sound.

I don’t know if I succeed with this, but it’s my goal. And I know that all of them still, in some part, sound like me because they have my voice, the voice of the work. I can only hope and try to make them stand out, so that if you were to flip open the book to any section without knowing at once whose head you’re in, you could figure it out in a few sentences.

I called this post finding your voice but the fact is, I don’t have any advice on how to do that. I started off using someone else’s voice and eventually figured out my own. I think we all have to do that. I think a good writer will inevitably do it — you won’t be able to stop yourself. You can’t help it. You’ll be writing and writing and it will happen. Because no matter how much you emulate someone, you’ll eventually find something you want to do differently, and when you do…that’s when you start finding your voice.

I used to pay a lot more homage to King when I was younger. I don’t think I do it so much any more. Not because I love his work or admire him less, but because I don’t have to weigh the value of my work on the scale of comparison to him. I’m not Stephen King. I never will be. I don’t write the way he writes, and even though I really want to write a horror novel, and even if I do, it won’t be like his. Because I have found *my* voice. I couldn’t describe it to you, or explain how I know it. I just do.

M

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Sorry, guys. I do not have Jared Padalecki’s email address. I’m still not Megan Padalecki. I think it’s a hoot that people searching on those terms come here. I wish I could help you out, I really, really do.

For those of you looking for Dean Winchester erotic again, sorry to disappoint. That stuff is only in my head, not written down for public consumption. Because…Dean Winchester…erotic…

What was I talking about?

Someone’s still looking for bad megan and someone else is seeking hart porn, but to the people looking for “read in bed” I say Welcome! Welcome!

M

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My favorite search string that led someone to my blog?

“in-bed balls itch.”

Yeah. Brought ‘em right to me.

*sigh*

Someone was also looking for BAD MEGAN. Haha. Yeah. That’s me! Annnnd, two more lookers for Megan Padalecki. Hey, Megan Padalecki. Email me. Or something. Because I am so not you, but someone’s looking for you, and they keep finding me.

I AM NOT THAT MEGAN! I am not Megan Padalecki!!! (Though I still do think that Jared Padalecki is just a long, tall bundle o’cute.)

M

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Yeah. I’m all about Dean, usually, but Season Two swayed me Sammy-side. It’s the shoulders. Guh.

Oh, and the fact that I get, like, ten people a day searching on Megan Padalecki and coming here. That might have something to do with it. Yeah.

Jared rulezzzzz!!!

Haha, oh, Jared P. how you’ve grown on me. Once your Sammy annoyed me so…the hair, the emo…but now? Now, I think Sammy’s grrrrrreat. And it’s all because of you, J.P. and yer mad acting skillz (EVIL!SAM!)

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My favorite search string that brought someone here: hart porn — I done tole ya, I’m not that Megan Hart!

Also, my favorite word of the day is: SMITTEN

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