Beginnings

I named this blog "Writing Refuge" not solely as a tribute to my first book, but more as a description of what writing has become for me. I love taking refuge in ideas and characters, in creation and imagination, in plotting and prose. I never could have imagined the highs--or the lows--that writing could bring. For the most part, it's made me extremely happy. Struggling with plot points, with critiques that I didn't like, with characters who refused to grow or worse, who tried to take over, has been a delicious journey that I hope to be on for a long, long time. Who would have thought that middle age (okay, maybe a little past that, but anyway) would bring so many new beginnings? I surely never would have believed it. But as George Elliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." And that applies to more than just writing...