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I'm happy, thrilled and proud. 1/28/2025 7:50:33 PM
My mother asked me, what do you wish to be when you grow up. I wanted to be a princess, a tooth fairy and a puppet, not necessarily in that order. A Writer??? Didn't even enter my head... Author, dreamer, skeptic, nonconformist. Researcher, WWII enthusiast, lover of all things romantic and steamy. Instill humor in all I attempt but at what expense, one could wonder. I believe staunchly in aliens but they refuse to believe in me. I hate double standards, don't you?
The motivation behind anything I write comes from the multitude of voices in my head. (Oh, don't even go there...like any author does not experience this phenomenon).
You know the little guys, who keep you awake at night, insisting upon plotting out an entire novel, usually, the size of War and Peace, even though you have a meeting the next morning with the new boss that's flying in from Geneva to evaluate your department's contributions over the past fiscal year? Those characters?
They motivate me to keep a writing tablet beside my pillow (and a flashlight and gel pen...it has to be gel, they insist. They have trouble reading my handwriting the next day otherwise) that I not miss any of the special gems they throw out willy-nilly, usually just when I'm reaching that blissful state of comatose all serious sleepers crave.
I am seriously beginning to dislike these phantom people. Why don't they just go away, or at least come when I am sitting idly, doing nothing per se. But...NO! No, that's not how they work. Not at all. Nor do they understand, I actually have a day job that keeps them in writing tablets and gel pens.
Yes, I love being a writer. Don't we all. It's fulfilling and magical and I am just darned proud to be counted among the elite group of wondrous people. Anyone have a gel pen I can borrow, mine just ran out of ink.
