Lexcia Dalton
Lexcia Dalton - Authoress-In-waiting 
I have been writing since high school. My first attempt was more or less a copy of a favourite novel at the time and has been long lost. Thank Heavens! Since then I have written almost continually - and to blazes with the housework!
Some of my efforts seem to have frozen in mid thought and have been hidden in the depths of the cupboard waiting for the spark that saw them begun, to re-ignite and finish them. Others seem to fly from the pen to the page. Still others were content to plod along at a somewhat erratic pace.
I have written some forty-plus novels in total. Most of them have been in the romance genre – contemporary, historical and futuristic – with the odd collection of what I call futuristic action – with an underlying romance. Some are stand alone stories, others are intertwined in what some have called ‘generational’, i.e. connected or interwoven, stories. I have also written newsletters for groups I have been involved with, and two manuals and handbooks.
As an authoress-in-waiting, I have finally decided I have the craft of novel writing well enough in hand to move to the next step – seriously contacting a publisher. Now all I need to do is pluck the courage up to do it and then accept the rejection slips. Oh… um! Does anyone out there want the job of agent?
My Writing Hints
When typing up your manuscript, work in sections and save each section as a separate file. That way if there is a bad sector on your disc you will not have lost all your work.
Buy a rewritable disc and keep it for your work and back it up every week. Another safe guard against computer malfunction, viruses etcetera.
Get to know your dictionary. You will be surprised at what you can learn from it.
The difference between a published author and an unpublished author is gumption and confidence – not skill.
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