I started my blog 14 YEARS AGO today!
I started it in 2008 as a way of keeping myself accountable to my goal of writing my first novel. I’d been wanting to write a full-length novel since the late 90s when I wrote my first novella (a short novel).
But no matter how many times I started—and I started many times—I never made it all the way through. Stuff always got in the way, and I was over it.
I was turning 25 that year, and I knew it was time to get my shit together if I was ever going to become the writer and author I dreamed of being.
I set the goal of writing the first full draft of my first novel by my birthday that year (in Sept). But by mid-March, I still hadn’t taken action on it.
Time was ticking away and I knew if I didn’t do something extreme, it was never gonna happen. My procrastination was controlling me way too much at that point in my life.
So on March 22, 2008, I made a decision.
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