Write.

With the encouragement of several new friends, all some type of writers, I have started putting together a book about my adventures. I have chapter titles, an almost completed intro and title. It's been a while since I was excited about a project I was working on, but this one is really near and dear to my heart. Perhaps it will only become an extended blog, but I am writing and I am loving it. It feels great to get emotions out into words. To be able to read them back and share my thoughts with someone. It can be the simplest thing that inspires me to get to work, but it's usually one of my writer friends asking, "What did you work on today?" The "peer pressure" and encouragement is amazing. And kind words from strangers when I post short stories or excerpts is the most flattering compliment one can receive. Some days, I sit at my desktop and I cannot think of a single sentence to write. Other days, there are words forming thoughts and sentences in my head so quickly, I have trouble getting them down on paper fast enough. Then in the middle of the night, I'll have an explosion of thoughts and have to get up to write. And I seem to only be able to do productive writing if there is music or television on in the background...multitasking ;) The worst is when I'm stuck in traffic and my brain tells me, "Oooh!! Let's write about...." I'm now in the habit of carrying notecards or pads of paper and pen with me everywhere I go...in my purse, my gym bag, the car. My goal is to have things complete by the end of summer. I am hopeful I'll have landed at least a part time job by then, so I'll have less free time to do writing and editing. And I know some of what I write will offend some. Most will find the humor in it. If you've heard some of my stories about online dating, you will appreciate the details and possible photos (with faces blurred out of course). It just seems like it's been a whole lifetime I've lived in the past several months. Oh, such a learning experience it has been! But alas, there have been several wonderful people I have become friends with...a few a little more than friends, which I am so grateful to have in my life. And the singles group I have recently joined is an adventure all on its own that will fill many chapters! My attitude lately has been, "Don't ask questions you really don't want to hear the answers to and don't read what I write if you are easily offended/turned off...don't...just don't." I am blessed to have loving friends who "get it" and support me. I love you guys!...you know who you are ;) I love getting texts from a particular writer friend I'm sort of seeing...he asks, "So, what are the weirdoes in cyber world bothering you with today?" The biggest critics/haters are always the ones who are unhappy with what they've got going on in their lives...or don't have. Life is too short. Do stuff that will make you happy!!