Finally!

I did it!! Yahooo! :hehe:

THE DEVIL INSIDE is finally finished! Well, the first draft anyway, but after a quick run through tomorrow it’ll be ready to send to my cp’s. (Technically it’s 6:30 a.m Tuesday, but it’s not Tuesday to me until after I go to bed and wake up again. 😉 )

And because of this great feeling of accomplishment, and in honor of Suzanne’s post on Dot Moms . . . .I’m going to reprint a post I wrote almost a year ago. (Last March)

The Power of the Mind.
I never planned to be a waitress all my life, but just after I turned 30 I realized it just might happen. With nightmares about turning into Flo from MEL’s DINER filling my head, I searched my heart and finally acknowledged that I’d always wanted to be a writer. I’d even taken a night class at the local community college when I was 23 on magazine writing. Traveling is another of my loves, and if I could find a way to get paid to travel, then Whoo hooo! I would be in heaven.

Only, how was someone with only a high school education going to become a writer? I couldn’t even remember what a verb was, or a noun.

Lucky for me I was blessed in the fact that I was raised by a woman that taught me I could do anything if I set my mind to it. So I did. I found a correspondence course on “How to Make Money Writing.” And I sent away my check for $800 and waited impatiently for my books and lessons to arrive on my doorstep. The first thing I had to do was fill out a questionnaire about myself.
One of the questions was what do you like to read?
My answer: Romance, Mystery, Erotica, Thrillers, and Bill Bryson Travel Books
Next Question: What do you want to write?
My Answer: Travel Stories, Maybe a romance, maybe a screenplay. Short Stories, Articles. Anything but Poetry.

My assigned tutor jumped on the fact that I read erotica and asked me to write him 2 short stories for that genre. What about Travel stories? I asked…but he was quick to educate me on how hard it was to sell a travel article and that if I wanted to make money, that wasn’t the way to do it.

Determined to be a writer, I sat myself at the kitchen table, with heart pounding and not a clue about writing fiction. I armed myself with a pen and paper and attempted my first short story. He read it and told me…my salacious imagination was going to make me an excellent erotica writer. I don’t know about excellent or not, but I am a writer whether I make money at it or not…so it’s true.

Anything is possible . . . if you set your mind to it.

And now I can even say I get paid to do this! 😀