Tuesday, August 6, 2013

In good time

I believe that my first book is taking longer than I would like to get written because I have spent so much time writing and learning the craft on short stories. This isn't such a bad road to travel to get where I'm going.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Bring Forth The First Post

So I’m back to my novel, my home and my heart. It’s my first novel, and I don’t know how well it will be received. But I don’t think about that all too much – mostly I ask myself if I want to self-publish someday. My biggest critic is myself, and my biggest obstacle is my health.

To say it’s not easy to write while struggling with a chronic disease is a gross understatement. It feels like holding a flag in a hurricane. Sometimes I lose my grip, and I watch it fly away into the storm. Then I walk through the debris and pick it up again.

Writing is the one constant I have in my life. No it’s not something I can do every day, but it’s my lifeline that pulls me through. And when the blizzard of fibromyalgia clears for a time I can write. A needed passion and I think for most writers it’s their center. It’s more than an obsession that drives me to do it. Perhaps with a little insanity and perseverance I can tell the story that no one else can.