I am done with my first draft of my book!

Exciting week for me. The first draft of the book I’ve been working on for the last two years is finished and it’s exciting. I proved to myself that I can write a book. Not sure it’s a very good book or that anyone would want to read it. But, I can write a book.

What did I learn about writing a book?

1. It’s hard. Being persistent and sticking with it when I couldn’t find ideas for what was next was hard.
2. It was good for me to write on my own. I didn’t want my parents or others to read what I was writing because I wanted to prove to me that I can do this. I didn’t want other people’s ideas or feedback to influence my story for my first draft.
3. It’s time to take a break from this story. I need some time away before going back and starting to edit.

In the meantime, I have lots of just typical life stuff to deal with:

• Meeting new case manager/social worker today since I’ve moved over to adult social services.
• Health stuff (stupid toe!) – Botox is scheduled for Wednesday.
• Need to do all the paperwork to move to the new Fiscal Management Support model for Consumer Directed Community Supports waiver. I mentioned this in a previous post about how now MnDHS is requiring clients to become their own small businesses to hire and manage their support staff. Lots of paper work involved!
• Keep writing in my blog.
• Stay warm because it’s like 50 below Fahrenheit here in Minnesota.