The Written Word

I remember my first field trip to the public library, in whatever grade it was. What grade do they take you to the library for the first time, maybe two or three? I was fascinated by the books and I remember deciding on the way home that I was going to write a book at some time in my life.

Well here I am, I turned 40 this year and have not yet written a book. Or started. It's funny though, that writing a book has never appeared as an item on any of my to-do lists. Yet the passion remains. I have written a number of songs, I have written some short stories. No novel yet though.

Sometimes when I tell my friends one of my life's ambitions is to write a book they ask what it would be about. And that's a very pertinent question. Perhaps a big reason I haven't started one yet is because I can't decide what to write about.