It's happening!

Hi there! So today's post is just going to be a little announcement. And by little I mean BIG. Like, colossal. At least, it is to me. Last night I had this epiphany of sorts - I was sitting in bed, nursing some aches from a 3.5 mile hike, and I started thinking about my writing. How much I love to do it, how it provides me with countless untold benefits, and how I need to be doing more of it. If not for me, for my faithful readers (hint hint: that's you!).

So then I started brainstorming. Right now, my daily writing commitment consists of blogging (or trying to!), a ten-minute commitment to write creatively each day in accordance with another blogger, journaling, responding to creative writing prompts on two websites, and writing essays for scholarships. (Trust me, this counts as creative writing!) Plus, I am starting to work on a thesis for my undergraduate degree. That's plenty of writing, too.

But still, I feel like I am missing something. So last night I started brainstorming and got a whole lot of no where. So I started doing homework. When SUDDENLY... IT CAME TO ME.

I am going to write a novel.

Now, it didn't come to me like that. I was actually thinking about how if I wrote a book about my life and all the craziness that occurs everyday, it would fill up all of my time. As I was detouring back to homework, I began to think of a character who went through this trauma and how she came back from it. And then I thought of her leading man, and her best friend. And what happened to her before this event. And much more. I looked up from my notes, all of this coming to me in about 10 seconds flat. And I realized I had a story. And that I was going to write a novel. Whoa.

So bear witness, readers! When I get through with writing, you'll be the first to know, and you'll be able to look back on February 28th, 2012 as the day I started my first novel. And of course, when it gets published, you can claim some bragging rights to being the first to know ;-)

Autographs, anyone?