Hello!
I’m back. It’s been a while. Phew, a long while since I last blogged. I’ve been up to a lot. It’s been especially emotional for me, my little one turned one and I’ve given myself permission to work on re-writing my first novel – my first real story. The one I shelved quite a few years ago because I loved it too much to finish it. Does that sound crazy? – Loving a story too much to finish it?
I don’t feel that way anymore. I mean I still love it above all my others, but now I feel I’ve matured enough as a writer to love it and finish it. (In spite of a comment made by someone last year regarding my writing – but I digress, and I need to shake that off!) I’m working to give it an ending. It will be bittersweet, and I may actually change it a few times before I set it free, but I will complete the story.
I’ve also made the decision to self-publish. I’m officially going to be an indie-author! The publishing industry as changed so dramatically in the last fifteen years that I just can’t see myself attempting to fit my writing into this mold that seems to be what agents are looking for. I’m not here to become a big-name writer, to make all kinds of money off my work – I mean, obviously, or I wouldn’t take as long as I do to complete something. I write for myself, and if I pick up a few readers along the way who like my style, then welcome!!
I write from my heart and 2017 was spent trying to fit that mold – that idea of what a novel should be, and I was unhappy. Writing makes me happy, writing the way someone else says I should write makes me unhappy. – Why would I want to be unhappy doing something I love so much? So, I’m not going to.
So! CHEERS to 2018 and the writing TRUE
Love!
VM