The birth of this blog.....

I am Lainey Jo Byrne and I am sure you are wondering why that matters. (For the record that is my Pen name.) It doesn't really except that well this is my blog and well your here to read what I am writing. I am hoping that something made you want to stop and see what was happening on this little blog of mine. I am creating this blog as my space to explode so to speak as I begin to attempt to write my first book. Or maybe I should say finish my first book. I have started a few books and scraped them. I am my own worst enemy, so with this blog I am hoping to keep myself accountable and some sort of schedule. Okay even I am laughing at myself, but a number of people tell me I have talent so I am going to try to finish this project.



I have been telling stories since I was born, no really I have. My family doesn't let me live it down. I still hear about the story I told about the 3 ginormous bears living in the Cascade mountains that couldn't come to my birthday party because they pissed me off. (Yeah I was 3 and I am sure my language was probably a little better than that.....well maybe not.) Anyway I do know that all my life I would people watch and make up ridiculous stories about the random strangers I saw all around me. Hey I grew up in the Mid-West, a girl has to get creative. Add to that this obsession I have with reading, which started when I got grounded at about age 12 and all my wicked step-mommy would let me do was read books. Who knew she wasn't a witch but an angel that was giving me the key to the meaning of life: Books. I can go anywhere, be anything and do anything I want just by opening a book and falling into the words within and letting my imagination explode!


Now the final piece of the puzzle is that a year ago I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and my health has been on a steady decline since the birth of my second child just about three years ago. It's been rough, with a lot of bed rest, not know what the problem was, then thinking we knew only to discover another problem. Oy vey! When we realized that my health wasn't going to magically improve we hired on Mary Poppins and she is freaking amazing. No no I won't share sorry, I can't survive without her. So now I know my two sweet angels and home are in the best hands possible and I am sitting in my room with a lot of time on my hands. Suddenly I have no set schedule, uh not a good place for a woman with ADHD it turns out. So I got the bright idea to write a book finally. I could fulfill my dreams. So I sat down and wrote 66 pages like a snap, hey this was pretty easy......uh brick wall.


I didn't touch my 'book' again and started by research to work on my book so I could make that middle really awesome. My bookshelf looks great. Now it's a few more months later and I have bought a writing software program, because as I told my sweet hubby "now I can keep all my character profiles in one place and my notes and all my stuff so there won't be 12 notebooks that the kids steal everywhere." and he just shakes his head. The beautiful thing about my husband is he really does believe in me and he would hand me the moon if he thought it would help me make my dreams come true.


So my realizations are simply this, I can't sit down and bang out a book like I would an essay for high school. Vomiting up 7 pages on the benefits and risks of Capital punishment 45 minutes before class is nothing compared to the soul shattering task of pouring your heart into YOUR creation. I think birthing my children was easier. So it's time to brush up on my grammar and basic English skills (I even bought a workbook so I can assign myself homework.) and begin the slow and excruciating process of writing my first book. I hope you'll find something of interest in this blog as I begin this journey. Come walk with me as I take my first steps toward becoming an author.........
 
PS---> This blog is not about me being a perfect writer. I am sure you will find that my Grammar sucks and many, many spelling errors, as well as God knows what else. This blog is where I will be free to just let go, the book is where it counts right LOL! Just to put that out there as I have seen to many other blogs get knocked for the stupid stuff. Oh and yes I am sure my language may get a big rough here and there I apologize in advance. You may rebuke me for that but please be gentle about it haha!