I wanna be like Margaret Mitchell

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. ~Alan Cohen



Welcome to the blog!  My hope here is to chronicle the process, good or bad, as I work towards writing and recording my precious grandmother's life story.  Because it's her story and the events in her life dictated my dad's story, it's really my story, too.  It's part memoir, part fiction, but ultimately I hope that it'll be as compelling on paper as it is when she and I are talking about it all.  I've been collecting her memories and stories for the last year and I think I'm ready to get down to it and do the work.  I'm thinking it'll be a cross between historical fiction, contemporary fiction and of course there will be a good dose of romance.  I don't like the word 'epic' because I think it's use is cheesy in recent pop culture circles and in the younguns vocabularies.  But simply because it spans 80 something years - 1924 to the present - it's pretty sweeping.  Maybe 'saga' is a better word?  That's it...historical, family saga, like Gone with the Wind.  I should be so lucky. 

Charles and Barbara Stone
San Antonio, TX 1942

Why a blog?  I don't really know what to tell you other than I feel compelled.  I know of several others who are or who have recorded their writing journey.  For posterity, for accountability so that others will encourage them to finish, for vanity?  Yes, maybe and no, I don't think so.  I'm doing this for Tara, Pete and me, but please feel free to follow along if you're even remotely interested.  This will be outlet to which I'll likely flee when I'm hiding out from doing the real work on the project, or when I'm struck dumb and paralyzed by writer's block, or more than likely, where I'll post the inane and silly for my own amusement.  You never know what you might find here.  I can't begin to imagine. 
So what's at the beginning?  My fraternal grandparents, Barbara and Charles.  Where does it end?  I could tell you, but then that would make the whole point of writing it down moot, no?