Patience and a Funny Girl.

I love writing.  Already I’m discovering how much hard work goes into it, but that’s good, it makes the final result so much more satisfying.  Sunday evening I sat at my computer for an hour and wrote another short story.  It is a very rough first draft.  It needs shaping and nurturing and the finished result may be totally different but it will be mine.  I had an idea and made a start and I must admit I was a little taken aback by the end result.   My idea was for a love story inspired by a song called Funny Girl, it was going to be warm and romantic; happy even.  What emerged was something very different and quite dark actually.  I quite like the idea of starting off and just letting your imagination take you on this journey.  I’m looking forward to working on it some more.  I’ll share some of it with you soon.

I’ve read and heard a great deal this week about the time it can take to have a book published even once all the writing has been done.  Patience and determination are obviously required.  It’s certainly not a smooth road but you know what?  It doesn’t put me off.  In fact it just makes me more determined to keep going.  I get so much pleasure from just the creative process and I really hope I get to the point where I’m tearing my hair out trying to find a publisher.  Surely it will be worth the wait in the end.  The question is do I have the patience?  Hmmm, not so sure.