I started writing as soon as I learned how to form letters with a pencil. My first published piece was an essay in the kids’ section of my hometown newspaper when I was 7. I continued to write until I went off to college, but like most aspiring writers, my writing dream got put on the back burner as soon as *real life* took over. Still, I yearned to write, but I could not see my way clear to fitting writing into my very busy life.
But as the adage says, *when the student is ready the teacher arrives.* I started reading books on the psychology of achievement and learned that many successful people, including writers, worked at their dreams at odd hours of the day like early in the morning, late at night, or on breaks during the workday.
That’s when the light bulb went off. I realized that if I was ever going to achieve my dream of becoming a writer, I was going to have to squeeze writing time in any way that I could. I started getting up at 3:30 a.m. and writing for two hours before I began my day. That was almost a decade ago, and since then my work has appeared in Family Circle, Writer’s Digest, Cat Fancy, The Toastmaster, and Chicken Soup for the Soul & Cup of Comfort anthologies. I have also published 4 books, including a literary women’s fiction novel that received accolades from RT Book Reviews, followed by the TIME TO WRITE series for aspiring authors. The 3rd book in the series, LIVING WRITE: The Secret to Bringing Your Craft Into Your Daily Life, was released in September 2010 by Adams Media.
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