Alive!

There’s no other way to put it.

I feel so grand right now. I feel like a little kid who got all the gifts he wanted for Christmas. Why? If you follow me on social media, you’ll know that just last week, a billboard of BEAUTY SCARS was lifted over my city.

I’ve been planning this for months, so keeping it a secret was just as hard as actually making it happen. But it did happen, and that image will continue to live over Toronto till the holiday season. Really, though, it will stay with me forever.

To be completely honest, I really didn’t think it was a big deal. But the way people around the city have reacted, I’m realizing that this really is a moment to embrace. So I’m embracing it, and writing about it, and celebrating it as I now know it should be celebrated.

This is the reason I titled this post Alive! Why should I wait to be faced with death or impossible odds or some blatant wake up call before I start feeling this way? I love what I do. I love everything about writing and sharing stories, real or imagined.

It’s crazy because I keep finding these eerie similarities between my real life and my novel. (Bit of a spoiler alert here.) Like for instance, it takes a life threatening incident to make Treasure, the main character in BEAUTY SCARS, to figure out how much more there is to her life. I’ll stop there because I don’t want to ruin it for anyone, but I’m recognizing how much I write about things that scare the shit out of me.

If you ever read my first book, a novella called THOUGHTS OF A FRACTURED SOUL, the entire story frightens the f*ck out of me. The story is about a young dreamer who never lives up to his potential. Go back and read my blogs. You’ll know first hand how much that thought alone makes my bones shiver.

But I don’t know, guys; things are happening. I’m feeling it. I’m seeing what’s happening around me, watching things fall into place, and I’m just really excited. I don’t know if I should be saying that, but who cares. Life is beautiful. I’m Alive!

C.R.Y

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