Family and Friends

Dear readers,

When you are aspiring to beat the odds and become an author. Not only getting published but people loving your work. It doesn't happen very often and only to the very few. It takes a lot of courage to pursue this accomplishment, it is also a lot of stress. The chances, the heartache, and maybe even the joy of never giving up. You read the success stories, J.K. Rowling she has mentioned how publishers denied her over and over. And now she has a theme park based solely on Harry Potter. Becca Fitzpatrick, she wrote the 'Hush Hush' series. She tried over and over for years. She re-wrote again and again until one day she got accepted.

Support systems are so important to a writer’s psyche. They encourage us, they hold onto our hopes and dreams even when we hate our books and are on the cusp of giving up. My mom was the first I told about my writing, she helped me name and create my first characters. I kept writing and writing eventually I scraped that story to be worked on at a later date. And then I got a new idea, I wrote the first 30 pages and gave them to my mom to read. She said it was amazing. It really wasn't but it gave me the strength to keep going and that was four years ago. I now have a finished first draft of that book and I am now working on editing it.

The only other person I trust with my writing is my best friend. I gave her 50 pages almost a year ago and she said it was good. My book is not at all in her genre but it means everything that she stuck it out, read it, edited it, and on the last page wrote an idea of where it should pick up. That penciled in idea meant more than I could ever say. She didn't have to keep the idea flowing. Her mind didn't have to keep going with the story when it ended. But the fact that it did said more than any word ever could.

But not everyone has the amazing support that I have (Thank you God). Sometimes you have to be your own support system and have those silly 'hang in there' kitten posters. There are always writer encouragements on Pinterest. Writing down why you love writing for when you start to despise those imaginary friends of yours. I do this as well. I keep quotes from authors who were once like me a normal girl with a dream who is now living the dream.

Keep the faith my fellow aspiring writers!

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