2024 – The Year Everything Started
January to December 2024.
I started writing a book of poems in January 2024 using poems I wrote years ago and more recent ones as well. I also started writing a short story for myself. For various reasons, I've postponed publishing my poems, but I still intend to do so someday; I hope my creative work will inspire and help others.
However, the short story I thought would be a good basis for my first novel, which I then started writing. It is going well but is a long way from being published. I am aiming for the summer or autumn of 2025. It is called Whispers Of The Welsh Valley, a real life romance, and I am so excited but also nervous for people to read it! I am really enjoying writing these characters and the world they are in, though sometimes they write themselves! Being able to create is fantastic, and it helps me with my mental health. I hope my published work will inspire and help others, especially since it addresses many serious issues. There is a content warning.
I also, in between writing my novel, did a couple of fan fictions for the Dreamboys. Both of them are two completely different stories and were a gift for them. I'm keeping them unpublished, but I'm pleased and happy to say they loved and really enjoyed the stories. I wrote one in April and presented it to them in May; then the guys asked me to write another! I wrote that one in October and presented it to them in November. I was worried about giving it to them because of being scared and nervous, but I need not have worried. Though I won’t be doing any more due to focussing on my novel. It was a lot of hard work, but I enjoyed the challenge of doing something different! The writing style was different from my novel, which was nice as it gave me a break and gave me time to think about what to do next for it.
Christmas 2004 and New Year 2025.
Throughout the Christmas and New Year period, I have mostly taken time off to have some quality time with my family and friends. Also to relax and chill in between my job. Which I needed and deserved. I have, however, been getting lots of ideas for my novel and also been thinking of future novels too, including book two of this two book series.
I have been reading as I love to read, which I always have done ever since I was a little girl. I think it is so important to read, especially when young, as it opens up a lot of opportunities and your imagination too. We need more children to read and be creative, or adults to read to them. Some of my happy childhood memories are of my parents reading to me (putting on all the voices!) or reading to myself in the garden or in the house or anywhere I could! Carrying loads of books around with me! I did other creative things too, for example, making up plays with my family and performing them!