Monday, May 9, 2016

I keep thinking about writing a book...

I have had a wish in my heart to be an author for a number of years. Back in college I wrote a few chapter and thought maybe... but nah, nothing ever came of it.

I have thought about what type of book, surely fiction, maybe trashy romance, a plot twisting mystery or a memoir. Then I asked myself, could I be an "expert" at anything? Could I write a How To Guide? Well, in 2015 I thought perhaps if I made WRITE my OLW that I might actually make time to begin the next great american novel.

WHO DO I THINK I AM?????? I'm no English major, I don't know the proper use of AFFECT and EFFECT, I am no expert at anything, that's for sure! So maybe I need to think a little bit more about an acceptable means of expressing myself using words. If a full fledged manuscript, whatever that actually entails,  isn't in the cards maybe a short story or more blogging or a pamphlet is more my cuppa tea. I could even fashion a poem or two and use my vocabulary for some form of self expression.

I think I am afraid that when the boys leave and no one is around to talk to that I will need to express myself and a neighborhood of make-believe with a slew of book characters would be fun. I could be besties with the heroine, kill off the crazies and have some FUN along the way incorporating psychedelic dream sequences, plot twists and an adorable set of puppies just to keep things lively.