In the past few months, I have been writing a lot more.  I am sending out query letters to magazines.  I have been published in our local woman’s magazine.  I have been working on my fiction.  And most of all, I am not hiding from my friends and family that I write.

I think that some people are surprised and maybe hurt that I never shared this part of me.  It wasn’t intentional.  I wasn’t trying to be mean or keep any secrets.  I just never was confident enough in my writing to share with the people that I see and talk to often.

Being a writer and letting people read your inner most thoughts is sort of like bearing your soul.  I leaves your feelings wide open.  And I have never really been one to share my feelings very much – even with my family.

But now, I have gained some confidence in my writing.  I have realized that I am a good writer and have something valuable to say.  So am sorry to my friends and family that felt I was hiding this from them.  I didn’t mean to be.

Here I am now, pouring out my heart, letting everyone know that I am a writer.