Butt to the Chair!~Let the Writing Begin

At 63 years old I am pursuing my long desired writing career. Over the years I have blogged sometimes daily and sometimes once a month. The new adventure is beginning in a different way than I anticipated. Write what you know they say. So what do I know? Adoption, suicide, being a special ed teacher, living a life with my high school sweetheart are all truths of my life and what I know. What I have lived. So I am beginning my story at the beginning and just let it unfold. After all that is how life unfolds one step at a time. None of us has s crystal ball to see the future and that has always been true of how I write. My best works are when I get out of the way and let it spill out. So I started this ten day writing challenge and am looking into supports for my writing.

Each of you has played an important role in my journey to publish. Susi has edited my grammar oops and the rest of you have been inspirations for writing or encouraged me to get back to writing when I hit a snag. Tammy never failed to let me know how she missed reading my daily blog even when it had been months since I posted. Terra is my commenter online that brings a smile to my life. She knows my story better than people I have met face to face.

When I left the classroom for retirement I had in mind several hats to wear in this new season. Now I am pressed toward this hat with a keyboard and a heart for sharing. Some say life has been harder for me than most. I say I have never had to walk through the storms without faith and those who lift me everyday. What else I know is that I need to write the raw truths of my circumstances and not sugar coat it. Jenn is the one who keeps me honest in the pain of dealing with my situations. The other thing I know is that when I write I need to write without worrying who will be offended by being put in or being left out of my words. I write what I live. So my hope is to cast off the ‘how will they react’ handcuffs and just tell my story. It is a love story, a grief story, a codependent story and a selfless, encouraging others story. My hope is to be more fully me in my next season of life by revisiting my bumps, bruises and triumphs of the past sixty plus years. If my readers and I laugh, cry and want to throw things along the way it will be a joyful success.

Here is to writing a blog and a novel at the same time. Panic arises just at the word novel.

In Him,
Joyful
3-21-19