Ready to go.

So it's done. I've finished the story and I couldn't be happier with it. And now I want everyone to read it. I've given it to a couple of my friends and now I'm just waiting on feedback. I joined a blog for writers that has tons of information such as agents looking for clients and publishers looking to publish. So here I am, ready to take the next step. I'm going to enter a couple of writing contests, get my name out there and then start sending this story out to agencies to see if anyone bites. It's my first time, so I'm not expecting a lot. I know I'll be rejected but I'll pick myself up, dust off my knees, and try again. I want people to see what I can do and to help me be better. I want to make my writing a career and I'm ready to start.

Other than that, I've been reading a lot this summer. I've finished five books and I'm itching to pick up the next one and keep going. I've been reading a lot of fairy tale inspired books and it's insipring me to write my own. We'll see, maybe that'll be my next project. One step at a time though, even though the ideas never stop flowing through my mind. Not that I'm complaining.

I've decided that the best part about making this blog is that I have ads at the bottom of my page. Now these ads relate to whatever the post is about. Now, being that my posts will all be about writing and trying to find writing jobs, so are these ads. I think they'll be more helpful then anything. Of course I'm not allowed to click on them through my page since I've put them on there to make money but that would be cheating (I hope I don't get in trouble for simply talking about it!) But copying and pasting is a talent we all possess and that's what I've been doing with them. So far I've found a pretty interesting freelance writing job site that sounds pretty cool. I'm thinking about submitting a sample writing piece and seeing where that will take me. There were a couple others that popped out at me but I haven't really had a lot of free time this weekend to check them out.

Good news is the little free time that I have had I've spent working on my story. I'm so excited about writing it that I can't wait to get home from work and just sit down and write. I feel such a connection to my characters that I feel bad when I don't write because then they don't get any further in life. Does that sound silly? It probably doesn't to any writers out there. I'm sure you all know exactly what I mean by that. And with that being said, it's time to help my cheerleader find out who she really is inside. Wish me luck.

.the starting line

So my mind has been very focused on my writing lately. I've already written two short stories (which in my case is an 80 page notebook) this year and I'm already halfway through my third one. When I'm writing, I feel alive. I connect with my characters, feel what they feel, live what they live and escape reality for a little while. And when I talk about my stories my face lights up and whoever I'm talking to can tell how passionate I am about them. Take my boyfriend for example, I ramble about my stories to him all the time. I tell him where I'm at in the story, how I feel about my characters, everything. In fact the other night I was talking to him about the story I'm writing now, about a high school cheerleader who falls for a guy in her class who could care less about her. Well one of my characters, Kelly, the cheerleader whose trying to be the reigning school queen (the main character has this title) is, well, a bitch. the biggest bitch. She is the epitome of a high school cheerleader and boy is she beginning to piss me off. But that's how I know she's good and I'm doing a good job writing her. My boyfriend finds it hilarious that I can separate myself from my characters as if I'm in the process of reading the story instead of writing it. I think this is a pretty good skill to have. It makes it all more fun, don't you think?

Anyway, back to my point. I've been writing so much lately that the thought of publishing comes up in my mind quite often. So I'm going to start checking things out, looking into different Canadian publishing companies and seeing what's out there and what I need to do to get into it - to get this done. I'm going to be a published author and I've started this blog to tell my story, to talk about my journey into this next step that I'm about to take in my life. Writing is my life, my passion, my skill. I went to Journalism school at Sheridan College and have many articles published in The Sheridan Sun, have been writing for an online music magazine for two years (www.soundproofmagazine.com) and have taken a creative writing course at the University of Toronto. I'm ready to take the next step and I want you to come with me.