Author's words and comments:
I use to lie when I was a little girl. I mean I'd tell my mother some whoppers to the point she wouldn't ask me what happened. Finally one day she said, you need to start writing those down on paper. She bought me a notebook and a bunch of pencils on my eleventh birthday and since then I've been writing. If one could see my mother's basement, one could see that I've been writing a long time. Fifty to sixty stories lining journals, notebooks, pads, and papers. One big fire hazard, but they are there and I've already started going through them just sorting out my thoughts and to figure out what the heck was I thinking back then. My goal is to finish all those stories and then publish them. In the end, I want to be remembered for the words I put on paper, the worlds I created for those who couldn't imagine, and for the lives I have touched with the creativity I inspired.
If I could offer any words for encouragement to any writer, it would be bottom line, DON'T STOP. You were gifted with a talent to take someone to another place and time and that is a gift worth working at and taking to new heights every day. Everyday you put your fingers on a keyboard, or put that pen on that paper, you are giving the Lord a big thank you and he will bless you for that. As for finishing stories, I would tell anyone,
DON'T STOP! Just write it until it's done. There's always a point one comes to in a story when you just can't get over this boring hump in the book. Keep writing through it and once you get to the end, go back and fix it, but just don't stop and go to another book. Finish what you start. The most important thing I've learned in life? You guessed it, two words, DON'T STOP. You catch on very quick.
