The Road to Cloudale in an ongoing blog as I speak about my experience writing and hopefully going through all the steps to releasing my first full length novel.
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| Mockup cover for Cloudale Book 1 (Not Final Cover Art) |
On June 14th, I put out a blog called Look How Far We Have Come. At that time I have been planning and started writing a book I have frequently called my 'dream' book. It was a book series I always wanted to write and for many years I placed it on the backburner and said I would write it one day. Well I was tired of saying, one day, one day so I decided to start writing it.
Along the way I found a rhythm and a flow state that when I wrote it almost became second nature. I address how I reached this flow state in the follow up blog Consistency and Tracking is Key.
Now as we draw closer to the final chapters of my first rough draft I think about what a journey it was to get here. I need you reader, to understand, how long it took to go from concept to the place we are now. As I am preparing to write an exciting conclusion to the first book in which I hope to be a 3 book saga of love, loss and learning to live, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel and I am so excited to share this with everyone.
I always dreamt of being a writer you see, growing up people would ask me what I wanted to be and I talked about the things that interested me. Journalism excited me for awhile, being an anthropologist seem like a something I could be good at and what I hold my degree in. Heck, at one stage in my life I wanted to live the simple life and either run or help run a book store or be a librarian. All of these dream careers spoke to me at various stages of my life. There was, however, one thing that they all had in common, all of them had some connection to writing, putting words to paper or to word processor as we now do. As time went on I realized that my biggest passion, where my heart truly lay was in the world of writing. It is funny talking about it now because we are more than 3/4 into this year but one of my resolutions for 2025 was to stop procrastinating and to write my novel and now, here we are.
Now I know this is just the beginning, writing the first draft is one thing but I still need to edit it, I still need to get it out to my beta readers, I need to figure out the legalities to publish it and I need to market it and get it out there but here is the thing. I already did the hardest part. I took something that was previously a mish mash of ideas and transformed it into a story that I am proud to call my own. Characters that I have had full-on conversations with and have live rent-free in my head for years. Soon I'll be able to unlock the door and let people into this world I created, filled with brave, believable protagonists, conflicted antagonists and everything in-between. Soon Cloudale will go from a dream to a reality and I can not wait to show you it.
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