Cliche Title,I know, but I am the queen of all things cliche. It is such a huge crown but I carry it with such grace. A few weeks ago I went to a book launch, i had actually gone for the great finger food they serve at the end of such dos but that was the day it all changed for me.
During the launch while I stuffed my face with amazing food and made some small talk, one of the writers said something to me that made my jaw drop. It actually took me a while to pick up that damn jaw and wipe the drool. I barely remember what I had said to her but i will never forget what she said to me. I was probably whining about how I want to be a writer but I don't have the balls, (writers have such big balls). She looked square at me and told me, "If it is your wish to write, My dear ,you will write and you will write good." Sounds pretty basic and easy the way she said it, right? Hehe, That is one of the most cryptic things I ever heard. It took me a while to wrap my head around her words.
For days I processed what she had said to me, I thought of nothing else but the words she had spoken. I am obsessive and slow like that. Then it finally hit me like a tonne of bricks. Go ahead write, that never killed anyone. And that my friends is how this blog was born. Deciding that I was going to write was the easy part, but what in the world was I going to write about? I still have not figured that one out but here we are.
A long time ago I asked a writer friend of mine,(turns out i have a lot of those), to give me some tips and tricks of the trade, He told me, "write about what you know." Another mind boggling statement from a writer, Why in the world do they always have to be so damn cryptic? I eventually decoded it and decided to write about what I know.
Here is why i write, because it feels right. See what i did there with the write and right. hehe I am getting the hang of this writing thing. I write because no one else can tell my story like I can. I write because , in this insane world we all need that thing that grounds us, music does that for a lot of people but for me writing is my drug/ poison of choice.
I want to dedicate this first post, (Do people do that on here? hmmmh), to that writer chick at the book launch. It probably looked like I was paying more attention to the finger food than I was to you but I was actually listening.
