The Dance Of Writing And Reading

Each Thursday afternoon I find myself sitting in an uncomfortable chair, much like a dozen or so other mothers in the room. My daughter can be seen up on a large flat screen television as she and her classmates learn how to pirouette and plie'. I waste no time putting the ear buds into my ears and finding some great tunes on my iPod. I have put on the least amount of makeup of all the mommies around me and nobody knows about the holes in the toes of my socks. I do, however, have something going for me. I'm a writer. I open my Writing Family Histories and Memoirs book by Kirk Polking and uncap my neon yellow highlighter to begin my search for valuable information to help me create works of historical fiction. I am a poet at heart, a free-lance writer by trade, and a novelist in the making...I hope.