Writing, noveling, story telling... and crafting

Three months ago, I decided I would try to do some creative writing.

I have done very little writing in my life. It's just not the type of thing I felt I would be very good at. My main hold up is that I could never come up with an idea to write about.

My four year old son has been asking me to tell him stories at night, and I let him pick the topic, usually it is about transformers or trucks or something like that, but I really enjoy telling the stories, so I thought, I would look into it a bit more.

I still have no original ideas, so I looked online and found a ton of writing prompts. I had no idea LOL. Seriously, I am/was so clueless about everything related to creative writing.

The first month I wrote some simple short stories that came from some writing prompts and then mid October I started to see the many Nanowrimo posts that inevitable begin to show up. I spent about 2 days perusing the website and message forums and decided to jump in head first and write a novel! It's an absolutely insane to do I thought, but at the same time I was given a great plot out of the blue, and I had to run with with. I prepped for two weeks and then wrote a 53K novel in 16 days. I can not even begin to believe I was able to do it from a creative sense, let alone I was able to stick with it and finish it as I generally have difficulty with follow through :).

By the time I was 3/4 through I was thinking of what to write for my second novel.

I thought I would take the cue of so many other people and make a blog for my writing. I don't know how often I will write something, but since I am no where close to ever getting anything good enough to publish, I figured this would be a great way to get my ideas out and if anyone wants to read them, then that would be great.


I think I'm hooked. At least until something new comes around to take my attention away LOL. Which is why, this blog has two parts, writing and crafting. I have sewn and crafted all my life. I am a quilter, but also like to make fabric toys.

That's the blog in a nutshell. I hope you like it :)