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Home  Latest News I'm 46, and beginning!
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I began this wonderful website with the full intention of it launching me into publication. I hoped it would solidify into cyber concrete, goals I set and would spur me into motivation. The miracle of great opportunities would arise and by this time in my life, I would be a best selling author. I am not.
So, when does the thinking become replaced by the doing? When does the fanciful become reality? It is when someone kicks you in the ass and says prolific words that spur you into motion! The procrastinator becomes the doer. My son John is 15 now. I began writing before he was born, when I was single and in my early 20s. We were talking just yesterday; yes, my 15 yo and talk, hard to believe. However, I digress. He said that he was glad that when I retired, I had a hobby. Hobby? Writing is what he meant and he meant it with all good intentions. When I retire. Sheesh, am I that close? When did my dream turn into a hobby? My son views it as a hobby, something I do simply for me. Although not totally untrue, writing is something that I do for me, but not only for me. I wish to share my stories of alternate lives with the world! Hobby, what did he know?
He knows in all of his 15 yo wisdom, that I spend very little time on writing. I say I am a writer, I write, I do, I research, I have the books, and I develop the stories and edit, and create. I finish. Then I let life get in the way. My son is right, and my mother is right. After over 400 lifelong rejections on different projects, I sit, I blog, I email, I plan, I do, I live my life through others. I have yet to fail because I am alive. I do not have arthritis in my fingers, but I do lead a busy life. My mom, my greatest fan said it best, "Lori, why are you afraid of success?"
My son, unaware of his wisdom spurred me forward, not this website, not this blog, and not the thought of being famous, but the fact that writing is not a hobby for me, but a necessity. It is a part of who I am that no one knows. A part of me hidden for so long and now, I will set free. I am no longer afraid of success, but will embrace it. It is not a HOBBY! But a gift that will lie dormant no more. I will succeed and not be afraid! Watch out world, I am back!
Lori Kolin Mofield
Author
Women's suspense
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