WMWW: My One Book

It's WMWW, time to let the writer in you come out and play for a while.

Today's post topic for you writerly mommyfolk:

If you could write just one book in this lifetime, what would it be and why? (ie:Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird.)

Or, if the thought of writing a whole book is sets your busy mommy mind a-whirl, consider this quote from the very private and fairly reclusive Harper Lee in 2007, who, upon being asked to address the Alabama Academy of Honor, said:

"Well, it's better to be silent than to be a fool."

Y'all know how this works, but I'll highlight the rules anyhow:

1. Post on either topic (book or quote) at your blog;

2. Be sure to spread the bloggity love by mentioning WMWW in your post with linkage back here to this post;

3. Come on back and drop your link in the Mr. Linky; and,

4. When you've got time to blog-hop, visit the links and read what other writing mommyfolk had to say.

And,

5. If you want to drop a comment after you link here, or if you don't have time to post at your blog but just want to comment here, that'd just be peachy.

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Now, me:

I can't even begin to count how many books I've started writing and abandoned, either due to those crazy circumstances of life as a Navy wife and then busy mommyfolk, or just because my heart wasn't in it.

Oh, and then there's that big ole green monster, Mr. Fear, that's got his own room in the back of my brain. He must be mighty comfy in there by now after all these years; his favorite trick is to wait until I'm so psyched about an idea that I can taste the words, so inspired that I'm daydreaming the story as I play mommy, and BOOM! He takes me out at the knees from behind, leaving me face down in a puddle of my own self-doubt.

Monsters, Inc rings true for me on so many levels.

You may have already heard about my misfired Romance novel; I suppose if my one desire as a writer was to be published, to see my name blazoned across a book, any book, I would have followed through on that chance.

But it's not. It never has been. In the end, it comes down to this for me:

If I could write only one book, it would be for my children.

Does that mean a children's book? No, not necessarily, although there are some children's books out there that make me laugh out loud (Duck for President, Bubba and Beau, The Runaway Pumpkin, to name just a few).

No, what I dream of is writing just one book that gives them pause. A book that speaks to them, that opens their mind and changes them. A book that they can hold and read and be proud to say, "My mom wrote this."

We all have that list of books that changed us, books that after we finished, we looked up at the world from the last page with new eyes. Books that you can remember whole paragraphs from even now, years later, because the words slammed into your soul and left an imprint there.

That's the one book I want to write, in whatever genre it may be.

Ambitious and over-reaching?

Yes.

Impossible?

I pray not.

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So there you have it, my one book. I'd love to read about yours, so post it up or comment below!

Get writing!