I just want to say that television has really fooled us into thinking that a writer just pulls up a chair to a typewriter and POOF!!! out comes a full size novel! Bunch of hooey!

Take for instance, Murder She Wrote, which made it look like the woman could write so freely that she had plenty of spare time to run around solving murders.

In the series Castle, the novelist was not only free to help solve crimes full time for the local PD, but when he did sit down to write, he could roll out half a novel in a weekend.

Movies and television always depict authors to have the capability to go into some fugue state, feverishly emptying a novel out onto the page in one fell swoop… or maybe it is just my own inexperience and lack of concentration that blocks me from magically pulling a 60,000 word dream out of my noggin overnight.

All I know is that I have days where I need to go back and re-imagine my own dream, so as to get it right on the page, for you the reader. I can see the framework of the entire dream, big important chunks of action, and all that… but it takes a great deal of time to think on the tiny details necessary, to bring my dream alive for You! 

This has to be one of the most difficult, yet, beautiful journeys of my life! The dedication and patience required to do something right, verses fast, has begun teaching me more about the joy in the journey. I’ve always been on RUN cycle, in every aspect of my life! I completed 4 years of high school in only 2 years, with an accumulated GPA of 3.91. I had 8 pregnancies in under 6 years, only three of which survived! This fast lane living was running my rear end over!

The years are teaching me that it is better to do a thing well, than to just get it done as fast as possible. As for writing a full size novel, I am just a baby learning to walk. Everything from chapter length, context, as well as my Punctuation Fairy tendencies, has to be taken into consideration while I attempt to put my dream to the page for you to experience. 

Add to my more attentive writing style, the daily Life Interruptus that nips at my heels, or sometimes my heart. There is a fine line between passionate writing and emotional writing, if you get my drift. Emotional writing distracts me from the true value and meaning of the dream I attempt to breath onto the page. My passion is where the story is, where my true heart rests. This is the part I seek to share with others as I write.

Writing also requires one to section off a part of the brain for this one dream, while the brain carries many many more dreams, ceaselessly screaming for my attention. Fortunately, being as isolated as I have been, as well as, living in life’s furnace of constant Interruptus’s, leaves me ample time to write on several things at once. And YES, I invented my own word spelling of “Interrupt”!

I have discovered that by slowing down in my efforts to tell this story, it gives it time to breath and deepen in richness of details that may have been lost, had I rushed through to the end. I think that you will be glad for the time I took to write, as it will bring you much pleasure in the time it takes you to read it!