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Eventually, I got back into the swing of life.  I found a new horse partner and life went on.  My book was not finished, but the writing I'd done, up to that point, had done it's job and I mended emotionally. 

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However, the idea of actually finishing it and getting published kept nagging at me.  I would sit down every once in a while to write, but just couldn't seem to.

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Months without writing turned into years. It was now 2013, and what I started in 2007 was begging to be finished.  I decided to take a class on publishing on Kindle from the local university.  I figured I would have to have a book to publish, so I would have to get mine done!

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Well, my strategy worked and I was finally motivated to finish.  As I worked on the class assignments, I also took time to sit down and just write. If I wasn't at a computer, I would write in a notebook or on a napkin or scrap of paper.  Finally, the words were tumbling again!

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I made an outline of my book for the class, and that exercise turned out to be a huge stepping stone which allowed me to organize my scattered thoughts and stories.  As I moved from one time period in my life to the next, I realized what the road block had been...some of the stories I had left to tell were going to be painful to remember.

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It was one of those light bulb moments.  What I had been passing off as just laziness and lack of try on my part, was really my subconscious mind protecting me.  Even after this revelation, I soldiered on, and I am so glad I did.  I love my book and hope it will give others the peace and clarity that I found as I wrote it.

The publishing process was not all that difficult, but it was very time consuming and I spent hours and hours, proof reading, formatting, previewing, ordering proof copies, finding errors and starting the process all over again.

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It was time well spent,  I am now a published author with two books under my belt.