My journey....part five

2004....the perfect opportunity...my youngest child started school, my DH is being supportive and saying I don't need to go out and find a job so I can concentrate on my writing....and I have a whole six hours in my day that are child free so what is my excuse.....
That I have a whole six hours in the day that are child free ....the first time since 1990 when my first child was born....and I wanted to enjoy it...to go shopping without dragging kids along and having short timetables (preschool years) that I had to adhere too....and then six hours.....who said you had six hours...it just slips away....and you find that you have less than an hour to actually sit and write once everything is done and you wonder why to bother....just in case.....I know wrong attitude but....
Come August I decided that I had to take myself seriously....do I really want to be an author or am I kidding myself, am I fooling around because I don't really want it or to avoid really going out into the world to find a job...
And then a thought struck....I really really really do want to write...and I want people to read what I write to cheer on the good guy, to boo at the bad, to laugh and to cry....to think and to wonder what if.....to give people a chance to escape reality and realise that in the end the good guy can prevail that justice can be served and that there are such things as happily ever after