As with any resolution or important project, getting started is the hardest part. I've always felt that I had a novel inside me waiting to come out. About two years ago, I finally started to put pen to paper, actually fingers to keyboard, and try my hand at creating something. I thought I needed a sabbatical to try and write. But, being a wife, mother, and employee, whatever time I had off was spent doing family-type things like laundry and cooking and cleaning, none of which I was really very good at. I imagined I would be creating some earth-changing work while looking out over the beach, a warm, salty breeze coming through the window to gently blow my hair.
Snap out of it! This is the real world. I write late at night, after my son's in bed, in front of the TV watching Law and Order SVU. I'm your average person with a full-time job and a pre-teen son. My husband and I are separated, but we're friends and we have hope for our future. I'm probably just like many of you out there. But I've found a way to focus on something wonderful, instead of all the knocks I've taken and mistakes I've made in the past. I can lose myself in Lily's life and live vicariously. I try to create her life with the knowledge and experience I have gained.
This may go nowhere and no one may read it, but it helps me to take control of my life and find an outlet for all the day to day problems of real life. I dream of someday being published, but I accept that there is a one in a million chance of that. But, I will continue, if for no other reason than it's my therapy to help me deal with my life.
I admire Mary Kay Andrews, Sue Margolis, and Sophie Kinsella. I can only hope that someday I will be as witty and funny and beloved as they are.
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