The next chapter...

So...here goes nothing!  Writing became a passion of mine way back in the fourth grade - thank you very much, Mrs. Barrett for assigning us to create a "book".  Most students wrote a few pages.  Me?  19. Typed, illustrated and bound; my "masterpiece" sparked something in me that, at times, has felt almost as natural (and necessary) as breathing.  I wrote consistently for several years...filling notebook after notebook. Writing mostly stories about girls my own age leading lives I felt were just normal enough to be real, yet exceptional enough to be interesting.  My friends passed these stories around giving me the drive I needed to keep writing.  Until one day I just...stopped.  The stories didn't come anymore and I felt like a part of me had died.  I spent years ignoring that part of myself until I was going through my divorce and all of a sudden I found myself wanting, needing, to not only express some of my thoughts and feelings, but to also rediscover that part of me I had somehow buried/lost so many years before.  For the past six years, "blogging" about my life has become something very important to me.  I've shared my highs and my lows...writing as honestly as I can about life and all of its nitty, gritty, beautiful, unbelievable moments.  What I haven't done...yet always want to do...is write an actual book - something totally different than what I do on here...a story, not unlike real life, yet full of characters I create.  My dear friend, Lacey, encouraged me to try this...National Novel Writing Month...and while I'm starting a few days late, I've decided it's a great way to help me get started.  Oddly, the first thing I had to do (aside from setting up my account on their website) was "create my novel" by giving it a title.  Now, what you may not know about me, I am terrible at simple things like captions and titles.  Back in high school journalism class, I would scrutinize over photo captions and to this day, I still struggle with simple, one-line statements.  (It might have something to do with the fact I'm a bit long-winded....a rambler some might say...you think?)  Anyway, I decided not to take too much time over-thinking this one thing and went with the first thing that came to mind..."The Space Between Us".  I would love to tell you I have this great plot all planned out, but I don't.  But, I know I want to do it...like it's somehow time. I guess we'll see...  Here's to another chapter (hahaha...) in my writing...fingers crossed something good comes out of all of this!