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Day 28, 30 Day Writing Challenge, about...writing! YAY!

 
As I sit here typing this blog, my mind can't stop racing through the details of my new story.  It feels good to find that passion again and I have a feeling this one will lead to the ones I have had in my mind and have written a million different time, for almost 20 years.  A story that has continually morphed, up until ten years ago, when the idea was firmly locked in place.  This one just happens to be a branch-ling (new word!? maybe?) from that story, but I think it will help me figure out where I am going.
 
Sometimes writing can be my addiction.  Seriously, instead of working I would rather be writing and truth be told, I might find myself mentally focusing on something other than work, but I can't help it. It's my passion and one day I hope to be good enough to be successful at it. 
 
I have signed up for another online writing course and I think this one might do the trick.  I love, go-at-your-own-pace programs that are online.  I do, seriously, need to work on punctuation, my mortal enemy.  I get the basics, but seriously, the whole comma thing, for the most part, throws me, and I am sure it drives my very few readers of my blog, nuts as well. I promise I will get the hang of it though...someday.  
 
Back to the original thought...it feels good to be productive again and with my first story finished and some of the processes gone through, I feel like, perhaps, I might be getting the hang of this, but before I get too far ahead of myself, I do know there is much to learn and I am a worthy pupil, waiting to absorb all that information.  What I need is to find a smart man, who can read my stuff with a red pen. lol!  Yeah, yeah...I know, there she goes again about finding Mr. Right.  Just sayin', I need someone smart, who reads a lot more than I do. ha!
 
So for now, I will just plug away on my short story and be grateful that I am finally getting to the books I have been wanting to re-write, for the last time, and finish them this time.  It is possible...I'm such a slow bloomer...yes, a late one too...but all good things in the right time, yes?
 
Until tomorrow...pursue your dreams, never give up and always believe...in you. <3
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