If you honestly do your best, there should be no room for regret.

I created this blog, last year June 2010, and just like many of my projects, I procrastinate until I lose interest. Well truthfully, it was fear that kept me from writing. Fear of not making sense, fear of not having enough time, and fear of exposing my deep thoughts. A writer takes pride in his work, I assume, so I thought to myself my writing should be the best. That's where I went wrong. A writer is actually a self employed creative professional.--I love that!!! "A writer creates a product (a manuscript) and try to sell it. That is a business and all business needs a plan." So here I am planning. Who's to say my product isn't good enough?? I'm sure Bill Gates wasn't 100% sure his computer program would be successful when he dropped out of Harvard to pursue Microsoft. I've been told many times before take a risk and here I am, a proud risk taker. I've dedicated 30 days to write my first "official", novel. With no training at all, I'm about to embark on a professional career I believe has been calling me since I was eleven years old. In 2008, I diagnosed myself with writer's block. That was my excuse for lack of creativity and the unwillingness to pour my mind and heart out on paper. But over the years, regardless of my "sickness" I would catch myself jotting down poems, writing plays, and many unfinished short stories. I realized recently that I was the source of my own block. The cure was, my favorite motto, "Just do it". So now, I'm filled with butterflies, and maybe a little anxiety. But nevertheless I'm excited, as I prepare for the birth of my first manuscript.