Baby Steps
I love writing. I don't get to write nearly as much as I'd like to, but I absolutely love it. Anyone who's met me, and also read anything I've written, would probably testify that I write better than I speak. It's much more liberating, especially being freed from speech impediments and pronunciation somersaults. I have been working on a few things, which I hope I'll get to share in time, but I recently thought to try and improve myself. So I entered a short story contest. It proved to be much more challenging than I thought, especially as it was exactly what it said it was, SHORT. 300 words short! Anyway, faced with a busy schedule, an impossible timeline and the inconvenient and almost diabolic paralysis of writers block, I turned to real life to inspire what would prove to be halting baby steps in the turbulent waters of the author. Is it autobiographical? Hehe, wouldn't you wish. It's fiction, so please don't start calling to express your