May Greetings

Greetings, I’m the Writing Mamas website guest editor for the month of May. At the February salon, someone asked me how long I’d been a Writing Mama. I said about 3 years. Then I started reading a book I’d bought when the author, Tucker Malarkey, came to speak to the group. She’d signed it in 2006! So 2010 started my fifth year with Writing Mamas. How time does fly when you’re in the company of wonderful interesting women.

I’ve been writing for several years and feel like I’m still finding my way. I’m most comfortable writing personal essays but have also tried short stories. I have a novel I keep committing to but not progressing much with. I’ve got a story to tell but what’s on the page doesn’t match what’s in my head.

I’m mostly unpublished.  A few short essays were published in the San Francisco Chronicle and I’ve placed in a couple of writing contests. I have a pile of rejection notices and I take encouragement that I’m starting to get handwritten comments on the preprinted standard rejection notices. It doesn’t matter, I’m writing no matter what.