by
Angela Rose
When
the last of eight kids headed off to kindergarten in August of 2012, I literally
panicked. No, it wasn’t that my baby was becoming a big boy that worried me. It was my biggest boy, my husband
that had me concerned! The man makes
Ebenezer Scrooge look like a drunken “frat boy” in Miami during spring break!
He hates to spend money, and can never have enough financial security. My dilemma?
Oh my gosh! He’s going to send me
back into the workforce, after being a stay-at-home mom after all these
years. Well, there was no way I was
going to let that happen!
In high
school I fell in love SE Hinton’s book, The Outsiders and the writing bug bit!
I started writing stories, using the captain of the football team and friends,
as the inspiration for my characters. When I began brainstorming how I could
bring a small, modest income into the household and work from home, I had to ask myself this question. What do I love and spend the majority of my
time doing? Besides parenting, carpooling and laundry, of course. The answer? I spend all my time
reading romance and journaling. So when
the Wake County Library in Knightdale offered a six week writer’s course
starting the very same week, I knew it was Divine Intervention…or just good
timing! Either way, I was on the road to
becoming an aspiring writer!
It has
been over a year since I have begun plotting story after, after story….never to
finish! I realized taking Honors English in high school, and being an English Major didn’t
necessarily make me a writer, and I openly admit my hate of grammar. I’m guilty of tossing commas around like they’re
candy! Once I had re-read my first
attempt I was discouraged, but wasn’t about to give up on this dream. I checked
out classes at the local community college and signed-up for a couple of
classes on writing fiction and character building. So I was on my way to being published author, right? Wrong! I had the plots, but still no structure to my
writing.
I was
just about to give up when historical romance author, Michelle Willingham said
to me. “Never tell yourself that you’re an aspiring author/writer. You write
every day…even if it’s only fifteen minutes.
Writers write! The only
difference between you and a published author is….the published one never gave
up.” Words I’ll never forget. Though I’m
still learning, I am a writer, as I have no intentions of giving up my dream to
be a published author. Besides, the voices in my head are begging to be heard!
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