The Word Cloud

Yes...nice positive red for this one me thinks :0)

I would just like to take this opportunity of saying a little thank you.  I only joined a couple of days ago, but the encouragement and friendliness I've found so far on this site has given me the will to carry on with my writing.

I know that my style of writing might not be to others choice, but it's mine and if I don't carry on, I'll never know if it was ever worth it.

I spent today out with hubby, getting immensely frustrated at the traffic, road-works and general slowness of getting from A-B (him more so than me, he was driving!).  I took that time to think a bit more, don't know about you lot, but I tend to think a lot and it's always about the book.....I wake up in the morning now wondering what I can put down next!  Anyhow, I decided to think of one character in particular and how perhaps her future might pan out and remembered a rather intense part of my life which I felt others might benefit from reading. 

I rarely speak to hubby about the book, he tends to sit there quite patiently, listening my huffing and puffing or throwing my notebook on the floor, stomping out to the kitchen etc but today as we were stuck in so much traffic and I needed to express how I felt, I talked about it.  He's very proud that a couple of people who've read it so far expressed an interest and the smile on his face was genuine, he was happy for me.  That I think meant more than anything.  I got out my notepad whilst in the car, and in between the bumpy roads, I wrote as fast as my hand could take me, stopping once in a while to prevent my tears from spilling over.  He knew what I was writing about and gave me a gentle nudge.  I told him that if THAT part of the book reaches just one person so that they know they're not alone with their emotions, then I'm putting it in there, every little last detail, every bit of rawness.

All the advice I've been given so far finally clicked.  All the worry and angst I had felt about 'how will it end' or 'what should she become' or 'what should she say/do' drifted away in the knowledge that I can make anyone in my book do whatever they please, be whoever I want them to be!!!!!!!  That and the fact that I worried incessantly about libel and/or defamation !! 

So again, just a little thank you to one and all for welcoming me here, I look forward to many more prods in the back when I'm self deprecating, procrastinatory or feeling a little bit of down in the dumps, I hope I can do the same for others.

Much Love x