So, I’m toooooooooooooooooooooooo excited !! I have always wanted to be an author, always knew I was meant to be one. My go-to action whenever I am feeling inspiration or any strong emotion is to write it out. I’ve been doing this for years. The intent was always to have the work published – not as part of some delusional desire to be the next JK Rowling – but more because I needed to put the work out there. It needed to go on its own journey and impact whoever it was meant to. And since having children, I needed to leave a piece of legacy for them. I almost never appear in family photos as I am always the one taking them. But this way, I know that from the written word they will always have a part of me.
I’ve managed to find so many blocks to not doing this over the years: I didn’t feel the drafts were ever finished, I couldn’t figure out how to publish (!), people would judge me. But then I was having coffee with the Frenchman the other morning and he said, that whilst I was waiting for my next assignment to start, I should get a project. This immediately prompted me to internally growl, as I don’t like being told what to do (!). But 48 hours later I showed him the Amazon links of where my two new books have been published (see below). His reaction was hilarious, he said: I meant take up yoga or something !
He gave me the nudge I needed, for which I am eternally grateful. The results are imperfect. I will always want to tweak the wording, but it is divinely messily imperfect and I am so happy. And I can now say to my mini-humans, that Mummy is a published author and they can be too.
What can you nudge yourself with today? Get comfortable with being messy. Just get started. You’ve got this. Xx
My books on Amazon.co.uk:
Macchiato Moments: Volume I
Aristo-Chic Working SuperMum Café 