daily prompt – August 2021

First of all, a big thank you to all you ladies who commented yesterday – you made my day and the stats spiked up (which shouldn't really matter, but million thanks anyway). I think it made an excellent discussion and boosted my writer's self-confidence again. Thank you and be patient while I answer the last two comments and visit your wonderful blogs – nice meeting a couple of people as well! Rambling on!

So the daily prompt was imagining my life in ten years time – a wonderful opportunity to daydream or make my own predictions!

If all goes according to plans, I'll be a full time writer living on my royalties, with probably more than one pen-name to tackle different genres. Although I'll probably use some form of personal style – a mix between the Chicago Manual and whatever is used in Europe – I hope my voice in English will be as well formed as it was in Italian. That would be my 20th year writing in English as well, so I should be proficient by then!

I don't know in which country I'll be living in, because I have no idea whom I might meet in the next ten years. Maybe I'll follow the love of my life (who hasn't showed up yet, in case you were wondering, and I sure hope he won't be jealous of my husband, Mr Writing, or we won't get very far! Nah, I'm sure he's going to be very supportive! ) or maybe I'll be stuck where I am now (please, please, God, no…).

I'll be a little over the half century mark by then, and hopefully a little wiser… Heck, I might even have found my place in this world and happily fit in! And I'll probably have settled on the lower stair and started traveling again and visited all the countries that are still on my list.

It's good to think about the future. But now let me go back to the present and try to make the best out of it!