Summer flowers - not quite - but May is here and with that, the promise of summer is around the corner. It's a great month to receive... well, - good news.
My news? I placed in my city's writing award! That meant I had to emerge from my "writer's cave" aka "basement office" to attend the festivities just last week. Besides meeting some great people and reconnecting with others, I received a plaque and a bag of cool stuff including a sweet little notebook that I'm not sure I dare deface with a pen .
Prizes and awards aside - I was able to speak with other writers including a young aspiring writer. That was conversation was incredibly inspiring, for it took me back to my teenage years when all I wanted to do was write but I didn't know what. That long ago dream never left and in the years that followed, it has taken me on an interesting journey. It's a journey where the road still stretches into an unknown horizon. I'm expecting that there will be a lot more curves in that road that may not resemble those I've already navigated.
What I know is, writing isn't a race that you win but it is a journey that you take your readers along on. So let the stories go on.
I'd like to say that's it for May excitement but we're only mid-way through. Who knows what might happen next.
Stay tuned - till next time!
Ryshia