My struggle writing began in 2014, I was sitting in McDonald’s with my husband. Told him I felt that the Lord was telling me that I needed to start writing books. He supported me in it.
I went home and started gathering information for writing a book:
- what type of story would I write?
- where would it take place?
- layout of the town’s businesses and streets.
- what is the size of the town’s police department?
- What is the pecking order?
- names and description of each character in my book
- the list goes on.
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After a few interruptions, I finally got around to start writing my book in 2017. But then came another interruption.
One day a knock came at our door. It was the landlord’s agent who told us that we had 30 days to move out of our Condo. The owner wanted to sell it!
We started packing, but in the midst of it, we ended up evacuating to Lakeland, because hurricane Irma was headed our way. After a few days there, we came back to Port Charlotte and continued packing boxes for our move.
Finding a place to live was a struggle. Everywhere we tried to find a place, they had a long waiting list. We finally ended up in a hotel for 3 days before moving into a camper loaned to us by a church member. Praise the Lord!
We lived there for several weeks before we were able to move into our current apartment.
When we moved in on Oct 27, 2017, and got settled, I started writing again. In January of 2018 I was diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo radiation and chemo for several weeks, plus some surgery. That did me in, to the point I could hardly do anything, let alone write. It took me weeks to get my strength back. But they had gotten all the cancer!
When I got much of my strength back, I started working on the book again. In 2019, I was again diagnosed with round two of cancer. Again, I underwent chemo and radiation. It was 2021 before I could continue to work on my book. I was determined that I was going to finish that book and get it published.
I finished and published it in 2020! It was a wonderful feeling knowing that I had finally published my first book.
I started writing book number two, another fiction. Late in 2021, God started dealing with me about writing some Christian Devotional books for women. I put the fiction book aside and started doing research for a devotional book. At present I am in the process of finishing the book so it can turn it over to my proofreader. I would like to be able to publish the book by the end of the month.
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