Follow That Dream

Well this is it, I have eventually decided that the time has come to follow my dream of becoming a published writer. Not sure yet how I am going to go about it but I guess just setting up and starting this blog has helped.

I have always been a passionate writer and have always dreamed of being published but I guess life just took over and I never seemed to get around to pursuing my dream. All that is about to change now. I am taking the bull by the horns so as to speak and I am going to do something about it. As an avid writer most of my works to date have been poetry. I found that writing poetry was an excellent way for me to come to terms with the loss of my father. My father took his own life on the 29th October 1990 when I was only 13 years old. I began writing poetry when I was about 15 and found that it was a great way to express the emotions I was feeling. Suicide is a very difficult subject to talk about and so writing my feelings down became like second nature. A lot of my poetry was very morbid and depressing as was my life at that time, but things have changed now and my life has moved on for the better. I met my partner Joe in 2000 and we now have a beautiful baby girl called Emma.

When I met Joe I decided that it was time to let go of the past and stupidly I burned all my poetry and writing. Looking back now I do regret it but at the time it felt right. I wanted to move on with my life and stop living in the past. It seems to have worked, my recent works can still be quite morbid and depressing but with the birth of my daughter my writing found a new niche.

To date my writing accomplishments are very few. I have had one of my poems published after winning a poetry contest. The poem is titled "Withered Love" and the book is called "Tender Moments"

This blog is my way of putting my writing on the internet, of sharing my thoughts and feelings with the world and keeping everyone up to date with my writing accomplishments (I am hoping to have quite a lot more).

I am currently setting up my website www.amandawrites.com and will keep everyone update on this.

So for now thank you for reading.