The End

I did it.
Yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life because I typed the six letters that all aspiring writers dream of writing, the elusive The End.  Five years after I first thought of the idea, five years of agony, five years of defeat, five years of giving up, five years of starting over and finally I have completed my first book.  I am so very proud of me, because writing a book is not as easy as people may think.  It takes time, patience, dedication and lots of support to get to the point to where you are writing the end.  First, I really don't have the time, but in between poop, boogers, tantrums, teenage melt downs, pre-teen melt downs, games, practices, cleaning the house and finding time shower and spend with my husband I really don't have time left to devote towards writing.  However, I had dedication and support and with dedication I was not going to give up on my dream and with support I delegated tasks to other members of my family to get things done while I wrote.  It was hard, but not as hard as the next step.

The editing process is what is going to hurt me the most.  It is during the editing process that my tursted editor grabs his dreaded red pen and marks up my entire manuscript.  He will comb through it for grammatical errors, spelling errors, continuity error and make sure that the damn thing makes some sort of sense.  I think that this is going to be hard on me because it is like sending Januari to the daycare and she comes back with red ink all over her body because the child care expert found items that I did wrong as a mother.

Her ears aren't clean enough

She has eye crust

Her hair isn't curly enough

Her pamper stinks...

You get the drift.  Skeletons is like my 7th child and with that being said a mother thinks that when it comes to her child she knows better than anyone else.  However, I know that just as there are child care experts there are book experts and I am not a book expert so I will accept the critique with open arms because in the end this editing process will only allow my book to be the best that it can be.

TTFN