Journey of a Lifelong Developing Writer

September 29, 2024

My desire to write baffles even me at times because my inner critic admonishes me for thinking it is worthwhile. For the past few weeks, I continued to revise and edit my completed manuscript and wrote several query letters. I added thirty thousand words to my new novel in progress. As always, I wrote in my journal and wrote various notes to myself in several notebooks; etched thoughts and ideas on scraps of paper which can be found inside my purse, tucked up inside the visor in my car, drawers, and jean pockets? Oh, and don’t forget the emails I sent to myself with notes, the drafts I will never send, as well as my actual Note section on my phone. Then there are the notes on the inside blank pages of the books I read. I started revising a short story I am reworking from 2020 and reworking one of my children’s books. My point is that I have this insatiable writing habit, and now I am figuring out how to make these prolific words, constructed from various emotions, emerge into the world as worthy reading material.