Novel Pending

Last weekend thanks to my loving, supportive husband, I escaped to Half Moon Bay for a solo weekend of soul searching and life-altering decisions. I have decided that all roads have led me to write a novel. Women’s contemporary fiction to be more specific. If you’ve followed me, then you know, when I say I’m going to do something, I do it. I always put it out into the universe, so I’m held accountable and most importantly, because joy should be shared.

I have the story, the setting (Half Moon Bay), the ending, the characters, the plot twists, the bones, and 20k words I’m proud of. I have so much more to write (at least 70k+) and it will take time. I will be calling on my family and friends to edit, seeking peer groups for critiques, enrolling in workshops, and then finally securing a literary agent for publication.

I have found the thing that sets my soul on fire.

It won’t be easy to juggle this and all that it takes to be the mother of 3 young children— but I owe it to myself and my girls to pursue a dream that lights me up inside.

My social media will be quieter and my Wit and Spit Up posts on pause (except for more published piece— here are my latest on Scary Mommy, Filter Free Parents and BLUNTmoms).

This cannot continue to be the year of unrelenting tragedy, one after another. Something beautiful needs to come out of all this pain. And with that, novel pending...