Writing & Publishing Secrets

Speaker 1: [Music] hi I'm Melanie bar welcome to the she builted experience with Melanie you're here because you want to experience the life and business that you crave join me as I talk to women who have successfully built it a career and business that they love we dive into the topic of how they built it and talk about everything from Having the courage to make career leaps to the details of how to lead effectively create successful teams Implement strategies for growth and Infuse Tech innovation magic happens when we focus on the part of ourselves and our business that brings us joy so let's dive in hi Sheil it family please meet Jackie capito she is the author of the book twintastic a twin expert and an identical twin as a twin Mom myself I can't wait to dive into our conversation about twins and about her experience becoming an author she says at times writing her book was all consuming however she completely enjoyed the journey thank you so much for joining us today Jackie please tell us who you are and about your book twintastic and why writing your book was so important to

Speaker 2: you I am Jackie David S capito and I wrote a book twintastic it's about a set of twins and Alex and Jordan and they couldn't be more different and Jordan likes fashion and art while Alex likes reading and Science and one day while cleaning the attic the twins come across a diary an old old diary that once belonged to their great grandmother Rose and the next thing the twins know the magical powers once possessed by them now have been passed on to the twins so suddenly only using their thoughts Alex and Jordan can communicate with each other and move objects they decide to use secret powers to help save their parents struggling restaurant otherwise their family could be out on the street and at the same time they deal with the Daily Grind of middle school first crushes the mean girl and using their hours they have a bake sale enter science contest and tutor their friends and will this be enough to rescue the restaurant and save their family from R there's a lot that I talk about also like dealing with the exploration of the family Dynamic trust friends in Middle School your friends are always changing and the consequences of misuse of power

Speaker 1: and why was writing twintastic important

Speaker 2: to you because you are a twin yourself I love being a twin and my twin and I have a very strong connection and I used to write for the twin magazine like twin stories but I wanted to write something fiction and I thought adding magic to it would be more

Speaker 1: fun and I have girl boy twins and I can't wait to buy the book to read it to my daughter because one time she actually asked me she said mom do girls have more friend problems or boys as she's starting to get older and go through these situations where she's not quite sure how to handle it and then she loves anything like kids spy so I'm sure she's going to love it and then my son too bringing in the magic will draw him into the book as well have you enjoyed the process of writing and becoming an author and do you have advice for anyone going through the process right now of

Speaker 2: writing and Publishing I enjoyed writing the book very much it's definitely a journey you get feedback you'll have to revise you keep on revising then you have to look for a publisher or a literary agent it's definitely a long process but I would say just keep at it keep going and don't get discouraged because you can't take it personal there's a lot of rejection involved because you never know what people are looking for and

Speaker 1: then eventually it will clip how was the writing process for you I read that you wake up some days and you're really inspired and you're there all day and then other days I think that's the same in any creative process though I think some days you feel really inspired and creative and other days you need to wait it out until that moment comes back

Speaker 2: exactly yeah some days I would wake up and I would seriously be writing until six o'clock and then I would have no energy to make dinner and then I couldn't get back to writing some more after dinner other days I was I would put in an hour or two and then I would go for a car ride maybe listen to some music and then get [Music] friend and you know we're always there for each other no matter what and uh she always tells me the truth there's so many memories I I guess the one thing that I guess I could tell is we really feel each other's pain and the one story I have is that when my sister had breast cancer three years ago and she's completely fine now the day of the surgery I woke up with the most excruciating pain ever like pain that I've never had in my entire life and it was on the left side it was horrific I never even asked my twin what side was it and I said was it the left side and she said yeah I said I woke up to excruciating pain it was bizarre and I know you always hear these crazy twin stories this is like a crazy twin story and so all went well and then she had radiation for the entire summer and during the entire time of radiation I felt a sensation of a tingling feeling and then she called me at the end of the summer and said it's done I'm finished everything's all good and I said wonderful and after that I never had that sensation again it's so interesting because you do hear those stories of twins being able to feel each other's pain and I haven't experienced that with with ours they're seven so they're not quite to that stage where they're going to communicate every feeling um but it's going to be

Speaker 1: interesting to see and are you and your

Speaker 2: sister different or are you alike in certain ways I mean we're very much alike in a lot of ways we're also very different we went to two different colleges and it kind of just happened she wanted a small school I wanted a larger school I went to Syracuse that was important because we were on our own

Speaker 1: although you know we spoke a lot but then I had my group of friends and she had her set friends so it it was a good decision it's interesting to see with twins how they're so close and have some similarities and in other ways they can be so drastically different yes but I think we're more alike than different though we also think alike it was my mother's birthday not too long ago and she lives in Connecticut and I'm in New Jersey and we both went to our own card stores with a thousand cards to choose from and we both sent my mother the same card my mother called us up and she said you know you sent the same card as your sister and it's amazing that's amazing I can see how things like that would happen and from day one they've had a partner in crime like I look at other kids and they're modeling the older one there was a little boy outside the other day who was kind of clinging to his dad's leg and I thought and he's three and I thought mine at three would never have done that they'd have looked at each other and ran off together because they've always had someone to be with which is a wonderful thing it is it is actually a really wonderful thing you you know in new situations growing up I never had to worry because I always had my twin it's great also in school like in high school we also switched classes which is also the advantage of having an identical twin which kind of came in handy I guess how was she had an English quiz and to study for and I had a study hall and she had biology and she's like I really need to study later on for my English class so I said okay I'll go to biology for you and meanwhile I had biology early during the day but I'll go for you and so I did and so I had two biology classes that day I love it that's so fun

Speaker 2: I've actually heard of that but never talked to anyone that actually switch classes so I love that is there something that going through the experience of writing and Publishing has taught you just to keep focused and to to keep moving forward and there's just a lot of rejection but just to to keep at it what gave you the courage to move forward with writing the book I imagine in the beginning it can be a bit daunting what gave you the courage to say I'm going to do this well actually

Speaker 1: in the beginning it wasn't daunting it was actually like really fun I loved writing I looked forward to it every single day and then it just got where it got difficult for me was to try to get connected to a publisher and to a literary agent what they're looking for so then you know you have to rewrite and edit and then there's a lot of moving forward yet then taking another step back it's just definitely a journey I

Speaker 2: see that would be the areas where you say keep going keep training yes yes keep sending out your query letters just keep at it and when can we purchase twin

Speaker 1: tastic it's on Amazon October 5th it came out so it's available and Good Times books is the publisher in New Delhi India and it's for tween ages 8 to 12 years old and I think everyone will

Speaker 2: really enjoy it congratulations that's

Speaker 1: great thank you magic happens when we focus on the part of ourselves and our business that brings us joy what is one tip that you can leave with us today about how you find and live your joy my

Speaker 2: joy is my family and my friends and business-wise I like to connect with people I like to hear their St stories and learn from people and and evolve

Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today Jackie can you please tell our listeners how and where they can find you they

Speaker 2: could find me on my website at Jacqueline capito and they could also find me on Facebook Jacqueline Davidson capito or Instagram and I also have a YouTube channel answering many questions that Twins or parents might have at Jaclyn capito twin expert and author some videos just deal with like should twins dress alike should they go to the same college so I answer a lot of those types of

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