Having my book chapter out there has been exciting, and it has really kicked in my motivation to complete my own book......8 chapters on this computer already, just waiting till the right time for them to see the light of day.....and really the thing blocking me is feeling like the publishing process is the laborious part of it all.....but I need to push past that and just do it......and the chapter I did just skimmed the surface to some degree....I had to fit the past, present, and future in a finite amount of words.....so it was not easy, I tend to hang on the verbose side more often than not lol:) But it did the story justice for the most part, I did my best, and I was proud of it......I worked at it on two separate occasions and really focused in on it, and spent hours letting the story flow in the ways it needed to.....and now the feedback is rolling in.....and I have been so grateful to receive some really great feedback, and some super kind words.....having a couple of people that are in the literary world share that I have some real talent in terms of writing.....chops if you will;-) And gosh that feels good after all of this, and after this fierce love affair I have developed with writing and words in this chapter.......And I have appreciated all of the feedback......welcoming any and all feedback to help me become better at my craft....and that is what writing has become to me.....like a painter and a canvas, or a sculptor and their clay, that is how I feel now about the written word and my screen, and it started as a way to release all of what I was carrying, but it has transcended that......in so many ways.....writing has always made me feel better.....no matter how I used it.....but it has grown to be something that nourishes me in ways that are hard to express....there has been something so therapeutic and healing about waking up each morning, nearly 1,400 times, and flipping open my computer and pouring out whatever is there....and I am working on ways to expand my content.....still keeping in line with my life, and my experiences, and my lessons etc.....but expanding it to write about even more topics, and I am trusting that the right inspiration will find me to do just that......so in the meantime I feel grateful that my chapter has been well received, in the spirit that it ws written.....and that my words are on pages somewhere in the world, and in this case in many somewheres in the world:)......and for me putting that chapter out there, and then my eventual book, is with the belief that the butterfly effect is real......that we are all interconnected, and the world ripples like stones skipping across a lake.......and that the story housed in those pages will find their way to the people in need of reading them......I truly believe that so deeply......because during my darkest days the same happened for me.....reading other women's stories, and taking pieces that I too could carry with me.....and use those pieces to change my life......the woman who told me early on, between the pages of her story, that I should train like a warrior, divorce being a marathon not a sprint.....and boy was she right, and I clutched those words like I could pick them up and carry them around....and maybe I have......and that is the power found in the right words at the right time.....they seem so harmless.....like hieroglyphics on an ancient wall..........and they surround us everywhere.....but boy oh boy do they help us, and speak to us, and help transform us.......so to all of you that have bought the book so far, I thank you again....and for the feedback, it is always welcomed and appreciated......becoming an author on the other side of this story has been an amazing piece indeed, and my writing journey has only just begun.......Enjoy the day:)
jperuso
Commentaires