Beginnings

(From 11/19/11)

Dear Book,

I am so. sorry.  I remember when we first met.  I was taking a writing course through The Institute of Children's Literature in CT, and I had an assignment and you just kind of came to me, piece by piece.  I loved you instantly, but as the course drew to a close I tucked you away and we grew apart.  The next time I saw you, I had grown up a little and I felt like you should too.  And so over the years I worked on you, picking you apart chapter by chapter and word by word until I had pretty much mangled you.  Sometimes I get a glimpse of what you could be, and that fills me with anticipation and I move forward.  Other times I hate you and I kind of want to rip you up into tiny pieces and light you on fire.  Ours is a complicated, passionate affair.  But through it all, you have been waiting for me to get it together and help you get published... I'm still working on it.
                                                                                                                           Love,
                                                                                                                          Megan

...I wrote that post a year and a half ago, and it still pretty well applies.  Sometimes I'm disappointed in myself for taking so long to get this done, it feels like I'll never finish, and it'll never get published.  But I suppose in every great endeavor there are times of growth and times of suspension.  And when I think of what this story started out as, I realize how much it has evolved.

What I didn't realize when I began that assignment is that I was taking the first steps of what would be a very long, but rewarding journey into the history of a town and my own imagination.  Over the years since those initial steps, this story has haunted me, refusing to go away.  And I have tried many and various methods of bringing it to life and sending it out into the world.  This blog is another of those attempts.  I've spent hours on it today, adding my newly finished book trailer, some starter tabs, and I wanted to get in one genesis post before turning-in, in what is now the wee small hours of the morning.  I'm hoping to add a playlist of music I listen to while writing that inspires me, some of my artwork, news about any progress on the editing/agent finding/publishing deal front, and lots of posts about people, places, and news about town.  Please, please, please support me in this journey!  Comment, subscribe, and share :)  Thank you for reading!