Eureka

Do you remember the moment you first had a thought that you could write? I'm talking as an adult. :) For me it was this moment at work several years ago where I looked around my little cube and thought, what am I doing here? I'd rather be home. Bringing this up to the DH was not a good idea b/c he reminded me that I was all for equality among men and women and that meant me in the workplace b/c he wanted to stay home too. But he decided to be generous and said that I was more than welcome to stay home if I met one of two conditions:
1) if I pop one out
2) become independently wealthy
Ha. At the time I didn't care to pop one out and it's not in my destiny to win with a lottery or gambling. Seeing the chance of Robert Redford offering DH a million for a night with me was very slim I had to think of another way to become independently wealthy.

Well, sitting in my cube that day I realized that I had all these stories in my head and my 6th grade English teacher had said that she would be surprised if I didn't become an author so I had no choice. Authorland it was. I figured I could write a story, send it to an agent and seeing how it was obviously the greatest thing she'd ever read I'd be offered a half a million to publish and someone might even want the rights to a movie.

Stop laughing.

That book is hiding in the closet, fearful of seeing the light of day. It was so bad that I actually fell asleep reading it. I've since learned that I can't become rich in this field, at least not monetarily. However, I feel rich for all the things I've learned about the writing world and all the friends I've made. (Aww, do you have warm fuzzies now???)

What's your eureka moment?

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Hey! I'm blogging!! Like wow. Never thought I would write on a blog. Mainly b/c I never thought I'd be able to figure it out. Thanks to the spanksters here I am! Yippee! And with even more help I have a pix. Was looking for a dragon, but I guess a sting ray will have to do. Hopefully I posted this correctly and it didn't wind up on some other bloggers page. :)