Monthly Archives : November 2023

The writing bug hit me when I was nine. I kept a diary with all my nine-year-old secrets. I wrote in my journals until I was twenty-five. I wrote my first manuscript at sixteen. I dreamed of being a published writer for many years. At 48, my publishing dream came true. Was it worth the long wait? Every minute of it because I was learning the craft as I waited. I was learning from some