Back to the Blogging Game

It's been ten months since I've updated this blog, so I doubt anyone is still checking it. But I've decided to come back to the land of blogging.

My reason for leaving and my reason for returning are actually the same thing, or two things to be more precise.

For the past fourteen months, I've been fostering two wonderful children with the intent of adoption. Parenting these children has been both the most challenging and most rewarding thing I have ever done. It has also required more energy, and patience that I ever thought I had.

Trying to find time to write while also being a mom has been a struggle. In 2014, I published my first two novels. I've been working on the first draft of my third novel for a year now, and I'm still only about a quarter of the way through the rough draft.

My problem isn't that I don't have time to write. It's that I don't have the emotional reserves to write fiction. My real life is overflowing with joys, frustrations, fears, and delights. I don't have any mental powers left to pour into my fictional characters. So I have decided to take a break from fiction writing and give memoir a try instead.

The adoption of my two little bundles of hyperactivity and love was finalized on September 24th. I am now in the process of writing an adoption memoir. As I sort through all the events and emotions that have lead my family to this point, I'm going to try sharing at least some of it with you.

So I'm back to blogging. Tune in next week, and I'll share something about my crazy family with you, I'm just not entirely sure what yet.