The secret it out! After a few months of teasing a secret project I’ve been working on, I finally got the courage within me to announce it to the world. I WROTE A BOOK!
I have to admit, when came up with the story and starting writing it, I wasn’t sure I would finish it. I’m a hot mess. I cook up crazy ideas all the time that don’t come to fruition because I’m a creative. I bounce from one thing to the next. I’m a constantly changing being. However, this book was different for some weird reason.
I had come up with an idea, written down a few notes, then put it away for a few weeks because I thought I was just having another one of my crazy notions. I kept thinking, I have a million other things on my plate- including planning a wedding- how could I possibly put the time in to finish a book right now? But for some reason, the words came and I just couldn’t stop writing!
A few years ago, the idea to write a different book first came to me, but something just wasn’t clicking. I’d sit down to write and nothing would come. Writers block, I guess, and it was real. I really thought I had some genius idea but I couldn’t bring myself to finish more than one chapter in two years. It was so frustrating, and definitely discouraging. For a while, I assumed I just wasn’t cut out for it. It was just one more thing I started but couldn’t finish.
Then, when this new idea came to me, something completely different happened. I wasn’t writing just to finish something; I was writing because I loved it. I loved every second I spent tapping my acrylic nails away at my computer. I would sit at coffee houses for 4, 5, 6 hours at a time or pull out my computer in the middle of the night when visions of my story would dance around my brain like watercolored pictures trying to come to life. Page after page came flowing out of me, and when I wasn’t writing, I was dreaming up more ideas so fast that I couldn’t wait to get back at it. I even pulled my car over once while I was driving because an idea came to me and I was afraid I would forget it! It was pure inspiration like I had never experienced.
And now, it’s finished. I wrote this story from start to finish and I feel incredibly good about it.
I know the journey ahead is a long one. I need to have it edited (it’s filled with spelling and punctuation errors lol), find a literal agent, be prepared for re-writes, then hope a pray like crazy that a publisher will love it as much as I do and turn me into a real published author. Plus, there’s probably a ton of other things in between that I’m not even aware of because this is so new to me. BUT I’m ready, y’all! I’m ready for anything that’s coming ahead and I’m going to tackle it all!
This week on Instagram, I’m going to be announcing what genre the book is! I told y’all last week that it’s fiction, so now you’ll find out what kind of fiction it is! I’m going to continue posting updates here, and maybe in a few months I might even post a few snippets from the actual book, so stay tuned!!
XOXO, Hil
Photos by: N. Mickle Photography