Thanksgiving

So many things to be thankful for. Each year the Thanksgiving time is one of the best times of the year, the time in which you stop and think about how many blessings are in your life. Maybe I adore this festivity more because we do not have it in Italy, and I feel that we miss a lot of the family time without the rush for presents, in which you look your family in the eyes and thank each one of them around the table.

This year on the list of thanks there is for sure this special year that brought me to fulfill one of my life dreams, to be a full time writer, to tell stories, waking up and going to bed with your side world. I would say that it is not so far from being in love. You are distracted from reality because in your mind your characters are moving around, talking to you, making you rethink scenes. It is like another family is there, and you love the idea of bringing everything to life.

Somehow maybe that is the way I feel my book is my fifth child, because you feel that you are really bringing something to life and into the world, where others might like it, might hate it, might be bored by it, and you feel that until it is on the inside, when nobody knows about it, it is safe. For now I am still in that phase in which I feel it is safe, and I know I should start to open it to the world even if I am kind of overprotective of it.

Thank you for being part of this journey with me.