Describe a day in the life of Anna Denisch

Wake up. Lay in bed and daydream about [the] books you’re working on. Get out of bed and eat an easy-to-make breakfast because people who have the energy to actually cook in the morning scare you. Do your day job (blog writing, wa, hecking, hoo). Complain about your day job to your roommate when they get home from work (night-shift nurse). Procrastinate doing your day job as you fiddle on your phone/play around online. Eat lunch and finally finish your gosh darn assignments for the day. Tell yourself you’ll work on your other freelance projects, but really just read or do some light housekeeping instead. Get the fear-spiration halfway through the afternoon and do some other freelance work. Eat dinner, also something easy because, honestly, people who have the energy to cook at all are terrifying and should be feared. Tell yourself you’ve done a lot today and sit down to either watch TV or play a game. Decide at 9 or 10 at night that it’s the perfect time to actually work on your own writing. Don’t get enough done. Rinse, wash, repeat.

What advice do you have for new authors?

Don’t listen too well to anyone’s advice (even mine! Yes, this one right here!) Everyone has their own style and format, and anyone offering advice on writing will be inflicting their own judgment (including me, who is a writer that disagrees with many so-called ‘writing advice’ posts I see all the time).
The only advice you should follow with 100% devotion and intensity is as follows:
Keep writing, and don’t give up.

Describe your writing style.

I have a very sparse, quick style. I think it probably stems from my ADHD, but I’m not a reader that enjoys a lot of descriptions or anything like that. In fact, I tend to just blow through most of it and just get on with the story. I think physical description is good if it lends to the plot or character development, otherwise, a) what does it matter? And b) I want to let the reader imagine their own world/setting, not tell them about it.
This is a very unpopular writing style/opinion on writing and reading, even among my close friends and family.

How long on average does it take you to write a book?

Well…the longest book took me…7 years.
The shortest took a month.

(First drafts anyway)
Do with that what you will.

Do you believe in writer’s block?

I believe in writer’s being blocked. But I don’t think there’s any one surefire way to get around it or that it’s something that can’t be dealt with. I think writer’s block is a big term that covers a lot of issues creatives face on a daily basis. But it’s easier to just say you have writer’s block so people leave you alone to deal with it.

About the Book

Firsthand Research by Anna Denisch

Genre: Erotic Romance

A sweet and sensual friends-to-lovers erotic romance about finding self-love, overcoming childhood traumas, and learning to go after the future you want in this world.

They say you should write what you know, but popular romance novelist Alice has never had a problem writing about love when she herself has always been single. Yet her newest writing venture, an erotic romance, is proving to be more challenging than she expected.

Enter Tony, the ‘playboy’ grandson of her publisher. After being kicked out ‘for his own good’, Tony’s looking for a place to stay and a job where he can prove himself. And what better use of his skills is there than helping Alice as her erotica research assistance?

In an exchange that works in both of their favors, Tony agrees to work as Alice’s writing assistant and Alice agrees not to tell his grandmother what he’s up to. But once Tony gets a real job at a rival publishing firm, his grandmother’s response threatens their newfound peace. If they want to preserve their futures, Tony and Alice have to come to terms with their feelings, both for each other and themselves.

A true learning to love yourself story where friends-turned-lovers-turned-romantic partners find their own peace in a world that’s designed to tear them down.

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About Anna Denisch

Anna Denisch was born and raised just outside of Baltimore City, but she has never called it home. When not traveling around the world or daydreaming about dragons, she spends her time looking at books she wants to read without actually touching them. She received her M.F.A in Creative and Professional Writing from Western Connecticut State University and considers daily if she is just insane enough to take her family’s sometime suggestion of getting a PhD.

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Another book by Anna on this website, Devotion