Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The List Grows

Saturday I was blessed by the company of two young ladies from the small group I led last year. Together we reorganized my office. They did most of the work and you should see it. Gorgeous! They are working machines. You should have seen them, shredding old manuscript copies, organizing shelves, sorting, and filing.

They came across several stacks of research or pages of story notes. With each collections of pages they'd ask me what it was. I'd say, "That's for a series I want to write." Then I'd tell them a little about it, to which they'd promptly reply, "That sounds cool." Or, "Write that one, soon." After having gone through quite a few of these collections one finally asked, "Do you plan to be writing books forever?"

My answer is, "Absolutely, positively, without a doubt, YES!" I plan to be late to my own funeral because I'm trying to finish that last manuscript. I was born a storyteller and I'll die a storyteller. I plan to spend all of the years in between writing and telling stories. And yes everyone of them will be for the 'Tween audience.

I guess you could say that story is my passion...only because I don't know a stronger word.

6 comments:

michelle isenhoff said...

I share that passion, Stephanie! I have so many stories in my head and not enough time to wrestle them all onto paper. But I'm going to give it my best try.

Unknown said...

Wonderful post. My favorite line: born a storyteller and I'll die a storyteller. I shared on twitter.

Stephanie, PQW said...

Oh yeah, Michelle. We're going down with our pens in our hands

Stephanie, PQW said...

Thank, Lois.

Sharon Ledwith said...

Hey,Stephanie, when those ladies are done organizing your office, send them my way! LOL! Great post on your love of writing! Tweeted!

Stephanie, PQW said...

Hi Sharon, I would love to recommend them to you. They are hard workers and a pleasure to be around.