Ideas for my book

When I started to write "How Do You Say Goodbye?", I started out trying to write a song. After a few days of jotting down incoherent thoughts, I gave it up. My thoughts kept going back to some members in my family that had passed away, namely my mother and a couple cousins. Even though they knew the end was coming, I never talked with them as to how they felt about it. Now, I wish I would have. Although I am relatively healthy, just normal aches and pains of growing older, I started to think about how I would feel and what I would do if I only had a certain amount of time left.
And that is when Sam came to life. As I put pen to paper, actually, it was fingers to keyboard, Samantha became my friend. I laughed with her and cried with her as she faced her past and lived through the every day agony of being sick and her struggle with how God could let this happen to her.
Not much of the book was planned. I never knew ahead of time what was around the corner for her in her trials and tribulations of life. Her antics surprised me. As I typed, new ideas just flowed through me and onto the screen. As much as she is a part of me, she is her own person and her friends became my friends. When I stop writing for a few days, I miss them as much as I miss my mom and my cousins, because if another word is never written about them, they will die.