Blurb Hell

Good morning, Readers!

So.... I'm trying to write a blurb....

This is what I looked like yesterday. Only I didn't have the wine. I'd have been happier with the wine. Image courtesy of thebiglist.com. Click for link.

It's for Human, as a leaflet to tuck into my books at ComicCon to let people know of my next release, and I just don't know what to do with it.  I can't write it.

I literally stared at a blank page for hours trying to figure out what to say.

Writing the novel was hellish.  Writing this blurb appears to be equally so.

I received some help from my good friend E.D., and now I have to find a way to focus the threads of this book into a hierarchy and pitch the book according to what I find most important.  Which is also difficult.  There is a romance aspect to the book which is hugely important, but it's not really central.  I think I want to focus on the mysterious threat more.

It's not great, but it's a start.  And with that start, I managed to write one sentence.

One sentence in two hours.

Ugh.

It's not even a good sentence!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!

So, today will be spent wrestling with this thing.  Perhaps I might even get it into a reasonable shape.  Or not.  Who knows?

I hate blurbs with a passion.

I'm cheering myself up with funny videos at the moment, and there was one that I absolutely have to share with you.  Ladies and gentlemen, Hawkeye:

I laughed so hard.

For the record, I really like Hawkeye (it might have something to do with my fondness for archery....), and I really hope they do more with him in the future.

Right, I'm off to stare blankly at a nearly blank page and weep.

Ciao!