Kay Bruin's Blog - Posts Tagged "book"

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, all of my emotions would just pour out on paper. It was mostly poetry back then. I was never brave enough to share my work on a regular basis. One day my class got an assignment to write a poem to be submitted for publication in a young writers book. I ended up being published. I was only in the fourth grade, but I like to think that experience is what made me want to write professionally. I used to have a copy of the book, but after my mom left and I had to move around I ended up losing it. I can’t even recall the name of the book or the poem I wrote because I’ve blocked out so much of my younger days.
That same embarrassment and hesitation happened with “Jane Doe”. I tried so hard, but I wasn’t brave enough to put it out there. I had been working on it for three years, before my husband convinced me that I was more than capable of writing something other people would want to read. With his encouragement and my three children cheering me on, I was able to push past my fear of rejection, and I couldn’t be prouder.