Sandra Bonaldi – The Million Dollar Question…
I’ve been asked many times – “Why do you write?”
It’s a loaded question with many answers. I didn’t choose to write – I had to write! I will always remember the night when it all began. I spent the evening alone, the kids already in bed as it was late. Joey was four, Jackie, two, and Mark, three months old. I was in bed and sleep was a long way off.
One minute I was all right and the next the tears were bubbling up as though a wellspring about to explode.
For years I had been kidding myself. I had been living a lie. I had three beautiful children, a nice home, yet I wasn’t happy. My heart was far from okay and was feeling a loss that even I could not comprehend. I prayed as never before and with a pen and paper the words spilled forth as they had never done before. The words were bursting forth from a broken heart and they demanded their story be told. And I put them down the best way I knew how. The only way I could put them down. They were the truth turned inside out.
Contemporary Romance seemed to be my comfort zone. After all, who could resist the hero sweeping in just in time to save his damsel in distress? There had to be that happily ever after…
At first I kept my writing a secret. After all, in my opinion it was just a bunch of jumbled up emotion coming from a broken heart. Most of it was run on sentences of raw emotion. Digging deeply into something that could not be explained because there was no rhyme just as there was no reason.
My writing was something all my own. As far as I was concerned no one needed to know, and for close to a year I was able to keep it under wraps. I was keeping a journal and writing some poetry. When I decided to actually write a book I knew it was not going to be an easy feat. But I fell in love with the characters. I laughed with them and I cried with them. To me they were real and I thought of them as real people.
Write what you know. I knew something about young love and I certainly knew about heart break. Put them together and Past Reflections was born. It was a labor of love. It was what I referred to as my “therapy book!”
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Blessings -
Sometimes they don't come packaged in a pretty bow. I've experienced this and know it to be true. I have shared this song with almost everyone I know and it is touching. I just need to keep looking up and believing that everything WILL turn out all right because it is what God had promised me and sometimes that is all we have to hold onto...
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