Most of my free time over the last few years has been spent in the world of writing, revising, query letters and agents, so you may be wondering why I am choosing now to start writing about the process. Well, I can give no other explanation except boredom.
I began writing seriously about 5 years ago after waking up from a particularly vivid dream. My husband (only a boyfriend at the time), told me to write the dream down, but after reaching the end of the one-page exercise, I learned there was more to the story.
What should have been a short story at best, became a trilogy of novels and the start of my writing obsession. A simple dream of being bitten by a spider had somehow become a young woman's journey toward discovering a magical world, how to use her untapped magic and protecting her father's throne.
The next two plus years took my characters through three books, nine weeks and too many near-death experiences. My own life was turned upside-down on several occasions while writing these novels, but it wasn't until beginning the process toward finding an agent where my endurance was truly challenged.
Next post: Editing, editing and then editing some more will nearly kill all aspiring authors.
