Friday by Lisa

As an introduction:

1. I write contemporary YA.

2. But I start grad school in the fall for an MFA in nonfiction.

3. I’m nannying for my nephew, six months old, in the DC area.

4. I thought I liked rain. I don’t.

5. Disneyland gives me migraines.

6. Life motto: I’d rather be at the beach.

7. Sometimes I pretend I’m British when no one is watching and say things like hi-ya and knickers.

8. Oh, and the name is Lisa.

Today I woke with a single thought–writing takes faith. Faith that something will happen when you sit at the computer. Faith that maybe a single word you write will be worth reading later even if it’s only by one person.

I forget this sometimes. I think if brilliant things aren’t already running around my mind then there will be nothing in me when I sit at my laptop.

Take the step of faith wherever you go, whatever clutters your lists with piles to do. Just sit even for a few moments and write something remarkable or rubbish. The thing with faith, you don’t know what’s over the cliff till you step to the edge.