Call me crazy, but I am not a fan of blogging. The idea of it sounds cool in theory—but one thing I know about myself is that there is no way that I could come up with something to captivate the attention of others. No way, that is, unless I were to write a story.

I have spent the last five years writing five different novels. Four of which are part of a series. I didn’t release them when they were finished because… 1) I didn’t know how. 2) The first book ended on a cliffhanger. As a reader, I hate that, and I didn’t want to be that author, but I was stuck. So, the least I could do was have the entire story finished so the reader wouldn’t be left wondering what happened to the characters.

The third and final reason is going to sound insane. I wrote all of them on my phone. Not through voice dictation, but with the very frustrating method of typing it out. I knew that autocorrect had made some crucial edits that were very wrong. Even though I had read through them numerous times correcting, with a single misplacement of a finger, autocorrect could change a person’s gender, change the tense of a verb, or add words that made no sense in context.

After some grueling hours of editing, I was ready to release my book. I’m not an idiot; I didn’t think that it would skyrocket. I thought if people took a chance and read it, they wouldn’t be able to put it down. I thought this because those that read an earlier version of the story (with all the errors—eek) told me so. What I didn’t expect was that no one would even be able to see the book. To find my book, you have to know the title and my name to search for it.

What I didn’t know is that in order for people to read my book, I should have been blogging all this time. So, I’m late to that game, but I started a blog with a website. (Yippee!) Then, I was stuck trying to come up with a purpose for my blog. 

Then it hit me today. I could chronicle my writing journey. The ups and the downs. The joy and the frustrations. The embarrassing things I did. Why I did them? Maybe it will help a future author. Maybe it will help me.