Priority!

So my niece got me interested in this thing called JulNaNoWriMo.  It is that July is National Novel Writing Month.  Last year I stuck with it for about 5 days or so but didn't commit to writing a novel at that time.  I decided instead to write poems each day.  My goal this year is to try this blogging thing... the right way... :/ 

My lifelong goal has been to be an author someday, my favorite line today still is "When I grow up I will be an author."  My nieces and nephews are getting too wise.  Instead of the "Cool!" response I was used to getting I started getting, "You are already grown up..."  Well, I suppose that's true in body, but I am a bit like Peter Pan in that I hope to never grow up!  A child is free!  A child imagines!  A child dreams!  A child goes big or goes home.  Usually crying and bleeding, but at least they attempted something extraordinary!  And guess what, even after a bad experience, a child still has hope and tries something new again.  Why would anyone want to grow up from that?  So it is still my hope to be an author but perhaps I don't have to do it when I grow up.  Perhaps I can do it now!  As a good friend and my favorite Western Music Artist, Mary Kaye said in a song "It's never too late, until it's too late!" 

So this post, if I was doing this right would have been on July 1st but I am only and hour and 14 minutes late.  So it's not too late, yet!  Plus, dear readers, it only means you get to read two in one day.  Oh, maybe I didn't say but the goal of JulNaNoWriMo is to write every day in the month of July and try and write a novel by the end of the month!  Ambitious, but never give up hope...

Disclaimer:  I am saving the novel project until next July if I can develop good writing habits this year.  I already have a novel started so won't have long to go... :)