my introduction

Hello online world. I have been procrastinating writing a blog for years. After I joined a writing group through Meetup.com, it was suggested to me that blogging would be good for practicing my writing skills. So here I am. I do have a blog on a website, but that is for another time. I have been a writer since I was a little girl. My first story was entitled My Brother and I. It is still sitting at my parent's house. It told the story of my brother and myself and how I annoyed him as a child. I wrote this when I was 8 years old. I started journaling when I was 10. I kept multiple journals over the years, and then got away from it. In my 20's I started again, and I have been doing it on and off. One of my goals is to journal daily. I am one of those people who still enjoys putting pen to paper. I still have nothing books and my friend gave me a beautiful empty writing book for my birthday this year. I have an idea for a book but this is a secret for now. I need to keep on writing and keep going to my writing group. There are some published authors there. I have been published locally where I live. But I long for bigger. I want to be able to make a living at writing. This is my passion. Don't we all want to do what we love? After all, who wants to spend their life doing something that makes them miserable? Life is about going after what you want and taking chances, not sitting on the sidelines.