Monica Sharman, Writer

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

- Emily Dickinson

I estimated ten years to finish my novel. That was 2004. Now, nine-tenths of the way there, I've written…

one chapter.

My new goal, then: write the first (and I mean first) draft of this middle-grade novel by December 2013.

It Just Begins will be a place for fiction projects (whether self-assigned or otherwise), poetry, and thoughts on writing.

For now, let me … just begin.