HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE A PEON AMONGST GIANTS?
BY D.L. GRASER
FROM WITHIN Life lessons from a firsttime children's book author.
Reading through articles in last month’s Shelf Unbound Magazine I began to feel as to who am I to share my thoughts amongst so many well-versed experienced writers. Many whom have no problem staying within the rules of the English language, typing words so eloquently bringing forth a well composed sentence. Feeling an inferior complex begin to tingle the hairs on the back of my neck and invade my thoughts, I looked for my chocolate chip cookies.
ABOUT THE COLUMNIST
D.L. Graser, was born and raised in the Midwest and has traveled worldwide with medical missions volunteering her time and talents for over twenty years. D.L. Graser has always dreamed of writing a fun book.
A half dozen cookies later, I told myself to knock it off, I am a beginner at this writing stuff. I need to keep going if I want to succeed as an author. So, grabbing my coffee, I sat down to write this article and wondered if anyone else ever felt like this. Fictional writing is fun. I never knew how much fun until I began to place words on paper to create characters. They become anything you want, good, bad, funny, serious, loving, grumpy, you choose. You have been wanting to write a fictional book for some time now, it’s been moving about in your head and for some strange reason you can’t get started. You read other’s work and long to write your own book, but don’t. Sit down and start. If your imagination takes a little jiggling and wiggling to get it awake, that may be because you have not exercised it very much. Imagination needs to be worked. We all have an imagination, so find yours and get it moving.
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AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2019
