A Leap of Faith

Writing a novel is scary.

Especially if you’ve never written one before.

Or if you decide to place your novel in the equestrian world of the Hunt Country in Virginia and you haven’t been on a horse in twenty years.

I don’t know what possessed me to do it but one day, I just started writing a monologue for a character I had in my head. And I liked how it sounded. So I added another character and a plot sprung into my mind.

Now, common wisdom says that you should never write a mystery without knowing the ending. But I had no idea where this story was going.

But the characters took over.

They fleshed themselves out. They drove the plot. They connected to each other.

And for an aspiring writer, that’s heaven.

They say there are two kinds of writers, plotters and “pantsers.” Plotters make detailed story outlines before they write a word.

Pantsers sit down and start typing. The story reveals itself to us, almost as it does for you as the reader.

Both plotters and pantsers not only have to write the novel, they have to revise it. And revise it again and again, until it becomes the story we’ve been dying to tell.

My hope for you is that you will have the same sense of wonder and delight in reading the book as I had when I wrote it.

Some surprises are too good not to share.

Have you ever thought about writing a novel? What’s holding you back?

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