Welcome to my dream

When I was in primary school, I wrote a story called A Day in the Life of a Dime. It followed the coin as it moved through my city and eventually landed in my dad’s pocket before becoming part of my allowance. I don’t remember the grade I received, but I remember the feeling. The spark of getting ideas down on foolscap paper. The focus of the re-read. The satisfaction of striking lines through to make it better. That feeling never left.

Today, stories still find me at the slightest prompting: a woman balancing grocery bags, a squirrel with no tail, a funeral procession, a bouquet of flowers left in a trash can. Sometimes an idea percolates in the background. Other times, it overtakes me and demands to be written until I finally sit down and begin.

The tools have changed. Foolscap paper has given way to a rose gold MacBook. But the process, the spark, the revision, the total immersion remains the same.

It has been my dream for over fifteen years to share what I have learned in my author and poet life with others and help them find their way to the page.

Because if you have a story in you, it’s there for a reason …

… and don’t have to write it perfectly. You just have to start.

Kathi