The first half of July's theme is the pursuit of happiness and what better day to celebrate that than our country's birthday? Our forefathers were in pursuit of a lot of things and you have to admire their willingness to fight so diligently for what they believed in. Pursuing publication is a bit like that, though, thankfully, no bayonets or big tea parties. I started writing for publication when my youngest started kindergarten. I'd given up a great career as a corporate meeting planner (all the travel wasn't conducive to starting a family when my husband and I wanted me to stay home to raise them), so when the youngest was gone all day, what was I going to do with myself? Answer: I picked up a few pencils, some spiral-bound notebooks (in the days before everyone had laptops), and I started writing my story. Umpteen revisions later, it's still not published, but I hold out hopes that maybe someday it will be. But then I had this 400 page manuscript; now what do I d...
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