Sounds great. You can even illustrate your books which is a huge awesome advantage.

In a way, it is... but it just means more work to do!  They might be graphic novels.

Wow, that's great. I hope that one day I will be able to take a peak at your journal.

Happy New Year, Val! And cool that you're keeping another journal. It's funny how just a small thing like keeping a little notebook handy makes such a difference. Look forward to seeing what comes out of it.

You, too!  I think it'll be a great year.  I'm hard at work.  More to come.  You know I'll be sharing it all here soon.

Believe is a huge, huge step.

I'm working on a book too: it really helps to give one a sense of purpose during a time of unemployment, in a way that casting resumes into the void does not.

Of course, just *writing* that can be the issue some days. Creating that first draft is the key.

Now, I'm going to stop procrastinating online, make a cup of tea, and write in the actual *book*, dammit.

I've been writing for a long while, probably ever since High School.  People still remember me as the girl who sat in the corner writing all the time in secret notebook journals.  I never gave up.  I've had a few things, short stories, poetry, published here and there.  I even had a comic strip published each week in a local newspaper ten years ago.  That was fun.  Crazy deadlines, tho.  But real life has a way of distracting me from going much further.  However with the experiences I've had in life, much would make for a great novel, or two.  I don't know.  I have a lot of stuff brewing.

Writing isn't a problem for me, it's getting someone to buy it or publish it that can be a problem sometimes.  You can't afford to procrastinate, you have to persevere.