Hello, and welcome to my first post in Books By Me....yes thats right Books By Me. For those of you I haven't told I have written my first short story/novella and I am currently in the process of getting it published. Don't worry I am still writing my travel blogs (for new readers please click on the world trip page tab), this is just a side project I am working on.
I've been gone now almost a year and a half and as much as I have heaps of travel stories I have so many other story ideas in my head. I actually lost sleep for a couple of days, when I did sleep it wasn't a deep sleep I tossed and turned and woke up every hour, I just couldn't clear my head, I couldn't even focus on reading a book because my mind would wander off. I was getting restless with all these thoughts so one day I just sat down and started jotting down some ideas in one of my note books, nothing really came from it but let me tell you, I was struck with a wave of exhaustion after I penned away for a few hours and I slept so good.
After a few days of filling pages with ideas and clearing my head, I finally was able to focus on one thing and not be so distracted by random wandering thoughts. The whole time in the back of my mind I had a story brewing, it had actually been brewing for months but I just didn't realize it was a story. I went back to some stuff I had written while I was in Australia and within one night I had my short story. After that I added to it, took away from it, read it over, added to it again and then gave it to a trusted source (my mum) to look it over and edit it; I had read it so many times that I just didn't couldn't look at it anymore and Dan (my husband) was getting exhausted with me reading new additions and edits to him every hour.
It has now been two weeks and it is edited and in its final stages getting ready for publishing! I can't wait!
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