As many
of you know, I sat down one evening in March of 2012 to write a book. My intentions were to never speak… not to utter
a single word about my endeavor. A private person on many levels, my plan was to
write a story formulated just for my likes alone. This would be a story that
only I would enjoy. My characters would be written with flaws and my storyline certainly
would not be perfect. That was the beauty of my secret. I would have no one to
judge me.
Three
books later, a mound of support, love and encouragement, I sit here in the
quiet moments – the sort of limbo of my book word – and I wait. A Promised Fate
will be published on December 30th.
The novel has gone out to a large handful of readers for their unbiased critiques
and assessment of my writing skills and storytelling talents. A fog of nervous energy surrounds me. What if they don’t like it? What if I am a disappointment?
What if my readers find out that I am not good enough? Esteem is such a fickle
thing.
It is
with this doubt in myself that I say, that I remind myself – who cares?
The
point is that I did it. This is my bucket list, not my life. In the end, I still did this just for me. I will always be my
hardest, meanest critic. I will beat myself up over the choice of one word in
chapter four. I will wake myself up at night because I forgot to mention one
last time how much Ari really does love Ava.
I know that in the weeks and months to come, my reviews will trickle in
and every time a new review posts to my book an excited, scared buzz courses
through my veins. This is a thrill. A painful, sort of pleasure ride – do they
like me?
My goal
was to write a book this year. I did it. I love it. I like me. The peace that I
have given myself on a job well done is the satisfaction I wanted. Everything
else is just words.
