Thursday night was one of the most incredible nights of my life, and definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me as a writer.
I still really don’t know how to express what it was like to have an out pouring like I received Thursday night. I’m finalizing a few things with Paypal, but after that is done, I will be paying for a full year of web hosting. I have one more year guaranteed to do something that means the world to me.
What really, really made me ugly cry, though, is how much love I felt from you guys. I don’t feel like it was charity, I felt like you guys were telling me you believed in me. That means everything in the world to me. When I waiver and get scared that I’m wasting my time and should give up and get a real job, I will remember this. Kindness matters and changes lives. Thank you. And now, when faced with the voices of doubt in my head, I can say I AM a real writer.This is a real job. Thank you.
I stayed up all night last night, well until 5 am, finishing the rough draft on the last part of my book. I’ve now written two books through rough draft stage. The first one was a learning experience best used as salvage for other things, but it gave me experience, and it gave me pride. I still have a lot of work on this second book, but I can do it.
Thank you again. If I could you would all get one of these:
I’m not sure it is feasible to send all of my readers a box full of corgi wonderful, though
I had to throw in a corgi somewhere.
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What you need to realize is that if you need help with anything (ANYTHING), just reach out! I need to realize that too. I’ve been struggling so much with moving and I begged for a couple hours of help and my whole family showed up and worked from morning to evening. It was amazing! You are loved and what may seem like a.big request to you may be something that plenty of your people would love to do for you. Just gotta put it out there. 🙂
Its true-what she said:) remember who showed up to hrlp me?? Even people I did not know!! People who were so kind and just gave me a few hours of their day.