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“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say. ”

— Flannery O'Connor

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Documenting the process: The first book I ever finished

I had been writing for a long time. I had notebooks full of scribbled poems, and half started ideas. I had been blogging for years. But, writing a book wasn’t even a blip on my radar. I hadn’t even considered it.

I can’t write a book. I’m a horrible speller, my grammar is only so-so. I am the queen of malapropisms (according to my husband) and I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was in first grade.

Then I had a dream. The real, sound-asleep-in-my-bed, kind of dream. It was weird, disturbing, and completely fantastical. I woke up and knew I wanted to write about it.

writingBethany StedmanNovember 4, 2019writing

I can write a book (and other things I need to remind myself of)

There are patterns to creative life, ebbs and flows. I’m starting to notice that mine are a little predictable.

I almost never write much during the summer, but as the days slowly start to get a little cooler (or just barely cooler — I do live in the desert after all!) I start to come back to writing, and thinking about writing. This year is no different, but this year I’m looking at my writing through a different lens. I’m feeling ready to get serious about my writing, and my desire to be an author, in a way that I haven’t before.

writingBethany StedmanOctober 24, 2019writing, writing life, writer

A Creative Valley

seasons, writingBethany StedmanMarch 16, 2013create, creating, creative ebb, creative valley, creative wall, creativity, ebb and flow, fuel for creativity, Gathering, observing, seasons of creativity, the creative process, uncreative, writing Comment

A Writer Just Starting Out

UncategorizedBethany StedmanMarch 8, 2013author, beginning, beginning writer, just starting out, new writer, writingComment