Sasha’s Story…One more day and it’s LEGAL

*grins*  Our darling Angie was the guest blogger at Write Minded today.  Did I mention she’s totally awesome?

http://www.writemindedblog.com/

She started it like this: 

“Do you remember your first time?

The excitement, the nerves, the almost painful anticipation of something you wanted so much…and yet were afraid of all at the same time?”

Let me tell you, I’m so excited, my skin might not hold me.

And this brings me to a question that was asked last week by another author.  How did Sasha’s story first open up to me?  Sasha’s story is written in first person and begins with the line:  “Anxiety is a bitch of monumental proportions.”

I write in first person and it’s almost scary to think that I remember the first line all my heroines have said to me.  That was Sasha’s first whisper on an early morning drive to Disney World.  My husband was driving and I was watching the sun rise over a cotton field bordering I-75 in South Georgia.

Frantically, I managed to get my laptop up and pounded away until I ran out of battery 1500 words later.

But I filed it away.  Since I didn’t even know where it was headed - no plot outline, no idea beyond that one scene that stood out so vividly in my mind.

It was almost a year later when another author friend urged me to consider working on it.  Suddenly, she was breathing, again, as if she’d been lurking in her room until just the right moment to come out into the sunshine.

After submitting it, I thought, “It’ll never happen.  No one wants to read a first person story like that.”

Then, I got the email.  I screamed…and then I cried…and my husband looked at me like I was nuts.  It’s been a surreal journey since.

Tomorrow is a dream come true.  I’ll be published.  Maybe by the time May gets here, I’ll have my feet back on the ground.

I hope you enjoy Sasha’s story and fall in love with her like I did.

HUGS and Thank you for coming by!

Kaye