Baby Steps

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
I have grown leaps and bounds since I started teaching over a decade ago (that sounds like it is sooo long!) I have learned that I do not know everything. In fact, there is much I do not know. I have learned to better accept criticism (though I do not think it is ever easy.) 

With that, I finally (years in the making) submitted my first manuscript for critique. This was HUGE for me. I've always wanted to be a writer. I even wrote about wanting to be a writer here! To turn over my story to a reader felt like I was telling my biggest secret. I know it sounds silly, but our stories are personal, private. This one has lived only in my head, my journal, and at bedtime when I share it with my little guy. 

I did it though. I pressed send and there was no turning back. 

So I wait

and wait

and wait.

Not sure what to expect, but ready! Sad to have waited so long, but proud nonetheless~for I have taken a baby step toward one day become a published author!
So here's to baby steps and here's to writing and here's to following your dreams and here's to great stories!

10 comments

  1. Congrats on submitting your first manuscript for a critique. That is very exciting! Keep us posted on how it goes, Lyssa.

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  2. How exciting! All the best to you.

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  3. Lysssa, I'm so happy to hear it! What a wonderful step forward.

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    1. a step forward....I need to take more of those! Thank you!!

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  4. Perhaps your blog titles should be: "My Mommy Reads....and Writes." ;o)

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  5. Not such a baby step in my mind...rather a pretty BIG step....keep us posted!

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    1. Thank you! I will! I'm excited and these comments are so encouraging. I love our online community!

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