Hey Life is as Sweet as Cotton Candy readers.

Today was a long day. I updated the look of Life is as Sweet as Cotton Candy and created the beginnings of a Facebook page for my magazine/blog.

I’m also working on some really cool future posts 🙂

Of course in between doing that I took care of Katie, made dinner, and had a Public Health nurse and other visitors for Katie come to my home today.

Tonight I’m staying up until 1 a.m.  I’m going to work on my children’s book.

If you’re a writer then you already know that the beginning is actually the hardest part of the book to write. I’ve rewritten mine ten times now over the past few months, but I finally am happy with how it’s going.

Everyone has a first draft, whether it’s an e-mail to a friend, or a business letter, or when you’re trying to figure out exactly what you’re going to say in that blank card for someone special. Before you figure out the perfect thing to say, you write down all kinds of things. You may hit delete, or erase your pencil marks a few times, or use Wite-Out, until you choose the words that you like the best.

My book is about Santa. My goal audience is for third, fourth and fifth grade readers, possibly younger, possibly older … doesn’t every writer dream of having the same kind of audience that J.K. Rowling has had for her books?

It’s always good to set your goals really high, but sometimes that also puts a lot of pressure on you when you write. So, I’ve decided to just write my book in order to get this idea out of my head and onto paper, with the hope of getting it into the hands of readers. I’ve had an agent and a publishing house interested in my idea and writing that I’ve done so far on this book, but that’s intimidation almost, when someone’s anticipating your book.

I now have an editor guiding me along in this process, so I better get off of here and hit the keys.

Before I leave for tonight, though, I wanted to ask you all if you have ever struggled with writing.If so, how do you work past it?

Who are your favorite authors to read? What about authors from your childhood, or new children’s books that you might be reading to your kids.

Let me know on my comments area on my post.

Night,

Karen