Lessons Learning—Treading into the Somehow Process

First time writers who know diddly about the book process, like me, receive a powerful shock-a-rooni jolt of reality. Like, we believe we’ll write the book and somehow, as if by magic, it will get “out there”.

I still believe that—my grip on faith for courage is my creative life line—but there’s more to the somehow. Now that I am treading into the somehow I can tell you it is more hard work than magic, takes loads of research and question asking, posting stuff on social media, and a bunch of other things I won’t put you through here.

My current somehow continues to be the book proposal. I am writing the chapter abstracts now, chapter 17 out of 36. Next week I hope to report I have completed the chapter abstract section and am sailing through another.

I suspect we’re supposed to complain about this so people know we’re really working and not lying on the couch watching Acorn TV and eating chips and salsa. The truth is, even though I’m not certain of what I’m doing and wonder if the ice here is too thin, this work is worth getting Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel, Georgie, Luther and the rest of the gang “out there” for you to meet. I love my work.

New fiction author, Tanya D. Dawson, has written a story for the young adult in all of us. Her pending novel, Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel, brightens the sometimes dark world of YA to deliver the angst and the weird in this inspiring adventure of mystery, intrigue, and mysticism grounded in today’s world. While Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel is primarily set on the West Coast, Tanya lives and works in the American Southwest.