Kathleen MacIver

I didn't grow up wanting to write a book. No... that was what Mom always wanted to do. In all honesty, I simply never thought about it.
Looking back, I still did quite a bit of writing... much of it under the watchful, editing eye of Mom, who was an English major. Among other things, I published a home-decorating ezine for 25,000 subscribers for about five years, and I started an inspirational blog a year ago. I've been told numerous times that I "have a way with words" - something for which I have my mother to thank, whether it was inherited or taught.
In general, however, writing was just something I did when I had to, or when something interested me. It's never been difficult for me, so I simply never thought about it much.
I've always been an avid reader, though, and I've never hesitated to make up my own alternate scenes or endings when the book or movie didn't please me. Since getting involved in writer's groups recently, I've come to realize that I've always read books as a writer, anticipating next moves and endings the whole way through the book. In fact, the more a book feeds my imagination to make up my own scenes, the more I love to read it over and over again. And that's how I got started on my own novel.
It happened this way...

I was reading a book by a favorite author (Lynn Kurland, if you're interested), and I got an idea for a new character. Scenes for this new character's love story started flowing through my mind, over and over again, until they got long enough that I couldn't keep them straight. It got to the point that they were stuck in my head the way a song sometimes is... you know, when you only know part of the chorus, so those few lines keep repeating themselves over and over and over in your mind?
That's what happened with this story... those few parts that I had imagined were going over and over and over again through my mind for days (and maybe weeks) on end.
Finally I sat down to write it out, hoping that if I did so, my brain would have some peace. And 100+ pages later, I realized I was writing a book. *smile* Before I knew it, the characters had their own worlds and families and interests.
I kept working away at it in my spare time... writing and re-writing and editing and revising and researching and enjoying every minute of it. There is something very satisfying when you finally have each word and turn of phrase just right, so the characters come to life on the page.
To Know Who You Are is finally finished, and I am in the process of looking for an agent and publisher. I'm also at work on stories for some of the minor characters from this story.

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