Introductions

Hi!
I'm Lynanne and I'm a small business owner in North Carolina with 5 children, 2 dogs, and 2 cats. I am a writer/editor and the documentation arm of our family IT consulting business. I work from home, but get out often enough to stay social. :) I hate housework and cooking, but I do it the best I can. I love good music, a good movie, a good book, and my family. The way I describe it is: good music has to have a melody, good movies have to have a good story, and good books have to have a plot that I can't guess by the second or third chapter! :) I also scrapbook and I used to quilt (I'd still enjoy it if I had any spare time or room to do it!).

My two oldest daughters are in college. I hear from one all the time and one not so much, but I love them both and I am so very proud of both of them. They are both taking different paths, but what they have chosen to do suits them so well and I envy them the good start they've made for themselves! My two stepsons are 19 and 15 and both still in high school. The oldest is trying our souls as he learns how to make the right choices for himself. He moved in with us on his 18th birthday, and has some learning issues that make school a struggle. Trying to teach him how to be self-sufficient has been a painful exercise for him as well as for us, but we're all learning how tough it is to start training for adulthood when you turn 18 as opposed to training for it your whole life! The next challenge is signing him up for cooking classes! :)

And then we have a 9-year old who keeps us young and exhausted at the same time. She's a soccer player (a first in our family) and a model (also a first, although either of my older daughters could do it as well), takes theater classes, and is a Girl Scout (anybody want cookies?). She's an intense child who takes a lot of our energy as well, but she is bright and talented and I can tell she's going to blaze her own path just as successfully as her sisters have!

I am married to a great guy -- it's my second marriage, but we just celebrated our 10th anniversary and things will be even better once he finally realizes that I'm not going to run off with someone else anytime soon. :) He is an IT professsional who is struggling with the changing industry -- a generalist in a world of specialists -- but he's respected in the field and is hoping to join me full-time with the business in the next year or so.

Okay, now about me. I love to write but have spent most of my life assuming nobody would care what I wrote or if I even wrote at all. I used to write books in spiral notebooks when I was in high school -- they were all about young girls falling in love with rock stars, but they were whole books! I lost them a long time ago, but I've always wanted to do that again. This year, Mark and I took a screenwriting class just for fun, and it sparked that craving in me to start writing fiction for myself, and this time I have acted on it.

It's no longer just "something I wish I had done" and is now something that I'm working on a little bit every day. I have the skeleton of a screenplay mapped out and am writing the book that will be the blueprint for it -- I have 12 pages written since mid-January!! I am collaborating on a play with a colleague -- he wrote a rather dark novel about a man spiraling down into oblivion and I am helping him turn it into a stage play. We are officially half done with the script and I think we may be ready to publish by the end of March!! I have also just recently started working with a gentleman who writes short screenplays -- trying to help him write the books to accompany them. And, I just started another story that I'm hoping will flush out into a novel. :) On top of all my professional writing and editing work, this keeps me pretty busy!! But, I love it and I wish I had made a commitment to doing this many years ago!

Well, that's it for introductions. I want to use this blog to keep my family and friends up-to-date with what I'm doing and maybe share some pieces of what I do. More later!