Conference: UTOPiAcon

Wondering through Facebook this morning and one of my favorite book cover designers/photographer was posting about her favorite conference to attend... Something called UTOPiAcon. You should probably know that I'm super curious and I totally have been researching it all morning long...
It sounds like such a neat conference! A three day event in Nashville, TN (which I have never been to and is close-ish). Full of amazing moments and tons of workshops. There keynote speakers are Myra Mcentire and Alex Flinn...
I'm totally going to have to check this out!  It's June 22-24, so I might have enough time to save some money!!! Wish me luck!

The Writing Process somedays

 I write something and then I erase it... I write again and yet again erase it... You think I would remember the statement -- Just write it. As easy as it sounds, it is not that easy. The words come sometimes and then again they don't. Sometimes the words just sound like the worse non-fiction book I can never make it through. You think it would be simple. ...
I can be drawn into so many books so I know others have figured out how to make it work, but me? Nope... Not at all... I'm still working on it. Just give me time.
This picture describes my writing process to a T. Every few seconds... I will go back and read stuff I have wrote. I have to re-read it again to make sure  really wrote those words. I can't believe yet I did.

Today as I work on blog posts, the words are coming so much easier. Maybe this is something my soul needed. Maybe.

Books are my passion...

Books are my passion... Reading is my passion... Without either, I am not myself.
Have you ever felt like that? With me, it's my books. But it's more than my books. It's my writing and my dreams.
I have dreamed for years about becoming a writer. A writer. A full-fledged writer who had her name in print and books on shelves. Books that people would buy want to buy.  Books that would continue to call people to them even after the print date was gone. Books that would continue to inspire and cause others to dream. I have held my dream so close and yet so far from myself. I have refused to acknowledge it in front of people. Afraid to finish a book, afraid to write and then be rejected.
That is the true fear.... Rejection....

Oh but the dream demands to be brought to life. It demands to not be slumbering any longer. So I start to dream again...

Dream with me.
P Ayres