A dream come true

I believe I became an actual writer before I had acknowledged that truth. I mean seriously – I had been writing since I had been twenty. My youngest had been barely three months old. The words that had been trapped inside of me for so long had begun working their way out. I felt as though I couldn’t get them down on paper fast enough. The steady rhythm began straight from my heart to the paper with the pen becoming the medium.

When I was writing I was creating my own world - My own happiness - My own fairytale – My own Happily Ever After. I could write the story any way I wanted.

Enter - Past Reflections
It had taken me close to a year to get the book down on paper. It was written longhand in a spiral bound notebook. Through it all, I knew the story was special. After all, there was so much of my heart in that book – I knew the story inside and out.

I was bothered that I didn’t have a title. I had written the entire book and no title. And then the title came to me in a dream. I believed it was God’s way of letting me know that Past Reflections was real in every sense of the word.

For a while there… Long while… My life had been as crazy as a roller coaster. But even a roller coaster has to stop sometime and it had landed with a couple of bumps along the way.

When I left my first husband all I had been able to take were my children. Once I was able to return for my belongings I had discovered I no longer had any belongings. My clothes had been destroyed and my writings for the past four years, including Past Reflections had just vanished into thin air! Devastated had to be an understatement for what I had been feeling!

Writers have a tough skin. We need to with all of the criticism we receive on a daily basis. I had always known that I would write – rewrite – and yes rewrite Past Reflections again. That story was in my blood. Twenty-seven years after the fact – Past Reflections is getting published.

Here is the moral to my story - Never – Ever let go of your dreams. Believe in who you are and you will succeed. With God on my side I knew I was destined to get this dream realized! And I haven’t begun to scratch the surface on my potential.