Well, I finished my first book. I am very excited. It has been in the making for a great many years, started and stopped numerous times. Finally, I found a reason to write it and finish it, a theme to build it on.
Unfortunately, that theme happens to be the passing of my mother. That is what brought the book together. It is non-fiction, about my life. It turned into a book about the struggle of me and my mom.
See, my mom and I did not always see eye to eye. We had a few falling outs throughout the past fifteen years and it came to a head about six years ago and the only time we had spoken since 2009 was at my sister's wedding in 2012.
I took the book that I had been trying to write for the last fifteen years and put it together through everything that happened in my mind to get me and my mom to where we were, all the way back as far as I can remember when my parents got divorced through to my sister's wedding, the last time we had seen each other.
It came together quickly having that to work around. I am very proud of it now. I am about a quarter of the way through the editing portion and then I am going to figure out how I want to publish it.
It was so important to me to finally do it and to do it this way because people were asking me what happened to get my mom and me to where we were. I was not ready to talk about at that point and now I feel our story should be knowledge to those that have needed to know for a great number of years.
My fingers are crossed that it will be a success as I am unknown and not the best marketer in the world. But I am happy that I was able to finish it at least. That is a big step for me when all I have wanted to do since her passing is accomplish something.
Unfortunately, that theme happens to be the passing of my mother. That is what brought the book together. It is non-fiction, about my life. It turned into a book about the struggle of me and my mom.
See, my mom and I did not always see eye to eye. We had a few falling outs throughout the past fifteen years and it came to a head about six years ago and the only time we had spoken since 2009 was at my sister's wedding in 2012.
I took the book that I had been trying to write for the last fifteen years and put it together through everything that happened in my mind to get me and my mom to where we were, all the way back as far as I can remember when my parents got divorced through to my sister's wedding, the last time we had seen each other.
It came together quickly having that to work around. I am very proud of it now. I am about a quarter of the way through the editing portion and then I am going to figure out how I want to publish it.
It was so important to me to finally do it and to do it this way because people were asking me what happened to get my mom and me to where we were. I was not ready to talk about at that point and now I feel our story should be knowledge to those that have needed to know for a great number of years.
My fingers are crossed that it will be a success as I am unknown and not the best marketer in the world. But I am happy that I was able to finish it at least. That is a big step for me when all I have wanted to do since her passing is accomplish something.