Too Excited to write lol

I’ve gotten so much momentum going with my novel (think: a fun, feel-good escape—think The Golden Girls meets The Bucket List with a side of laugh-out-loud absurdity.) that I’m currently too excited to write this morning, lol. Sometimes this happens. I’ve only had this experience two other times, and only one was about writing. The first time was when I wrote my first children’s story years ago and got so excited as I finished it that I was TOO excited to actually go mail out the manuscript lol. I called my sister and talked and told her I was so excited I had to lie down, and she laughed and laughed over that. But seriously, I had to fully process my excitement mentally before being able to do anything physically. I mailed the manuscript and a week or two later got a call from Highlights For Children with an offer. I said, yes, received a contract and sent it in and voila, my first story, Ben Gets to Help (under my name back then Elizabeth Trigg) was published in the April 1999 issue of Highlights for Children Magazine. I was thrilled and it was only a couple years later when I read an article by a so-called expert that said, “Don’t get your hopes up for your first story; don’t expect to get it published in a major publication like Highlighs for Children for example.” I laughed because I had and learned right off the bad to not take advice, but to go by my own feelings.

The only second time I had that feeling was when I won a writing course. I couldn’t afford to sign up for the course because it was well over $1000 and I was flat broke, but I desperately wanted to take this guy’s course because he’s had a significant career as a screenwriter and since I’d dropped out of filmschool because it just moved too slowly for me (LOL), I needed to take this guy’s course. I could’t afford it, but I knew that at his free webinar that night, he would be giving away one free enrollment to one lucky attendee in a random draw. All day long I had such high excitement and just knew I’d win somehow because I felt that course was something I definitely needed in my life and I couldn’t see any other way to pay for it, and all day I just had that same unbearable excitement and I thought, “I think I’m going to win because I feel like it’s meant to be!” and I nearly fainted when the winner’s name was called and it WAS me! I cannot believe how I just fully believed all day I would win it, because I needed to, and then I did!

So, this is the third time I’ve had this kind of excitement. With this book I’m writing now. I am so unbelievably inspired and it is just so funny, and fun and easy to write, based on a mixture of my own experiences and my imagination, and I’m having a blast, but more than that, I’m having this overwhelming excitement and I just KNOW that this book will do great. Somehow I just know it.