'I am so persuasive I can talk the colour off a crayon."
"Dread settled in my stomach like sour milk."
I think it was in "Rogue" where there is a scene I loved, where she described the chess pieces falling over. I can't say too much as I don't want to spoil the story for people who haven't yet read it but what she did was similar to the sort of thing a director of photography might do in a film. The small details of what was happening around the character were just as important to the main story as the plot. She used the fallen chess piece in a way to compliment the actual events taking place in the story. The chess board breaking had nothing to do with the story but the images it brought up were symbolic - it was genius.
I wish I could write like this! I feel I have plenty of great ideas for more stories but so do many other writers. If I want my work to stand out and be something special then I have to find a way to incorporate something unique within my writing style because describing a scene well or making a character realistic just isn't enough! I need to give my writing some va-va-voom.
To write at the level of Rachel Vincent will be no easy feat but I know I am improving everyday. I can now see my mistakes and I have a better idea of what I need to do next to improve. With time I am confident I will get published. That is my ultimate goal, my dream, my destiny. If I didn't have bills to pay I would live and breath writing as it is the oxygen that fuels my existence.