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What prompted me to write?

2/11/2013

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I have always enjoyed story telling and writing in different ways.  Two years ago, I heard about NaNoWriMo, which is National Novel Writing Month.  I had an idea that I wanted to begin developing and this challenge of writing 50,000 during the month of November seemed like a cool project.  I succeeded in writing just over the 50,000 words on my Historical Romance novel and have since added another 38,000 words.  It has turned into a trilogy, The Sunset Sapphire Trilogy, and there is still a lot of work to be done on it.  I guess it sits in the back of my mind and twists and turns in different directions.  Will get back to that story one of these days.

Last year I decided to try NaNoWriMo again and worked on a story about bullying.  The Bully of Black Rock Bay was born.  It is more of a Young Adult novel but I had to leave off on completing that challenge, as I ended up in hospital for 15 days.  I was able to keep writing though and did manage to get around 27,000 words written.  That is also on the back burner and waiting to be completed.

In the meantime, I had a few children's stories that I had started a few years ago and thought I would give them another look.  It is amazing how working with other writers can spur you on as well as hone your skills.  I looked at these stories and decided that they really needed some serious work to make them better.  Thus began the idea that it might be easier to get a children's book out there before one of the two novels.

So there it is, some of what prompted me to write.
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