Life Begins at 50

Can it be that I'm going to be 50 in 4 months? Damn...where did all the years go by. It feels as if it were only yesterday that I was sitting in the movie theater for 3 showings of Saturday Night Fever with my best friend Liz.

Back in the day we were considered "Glitter Chicks" as our hair was perfectly teased and our clothes were only worn straight out of the dry cleaners. However, my love of writing has been around before the days of disco and the New York Mets clinching the 1973 National League Championship.

I still love the Mets, and my first manuscript I ever wrote by hand is still sitting in my closet and revolves around baseball players. I will never throw it away as it is a part of my childhood that will always be alive in me.

Now, over 32 years later, not only did my priorities change, but my writing style did too. I thought I was the bomb and knew everything there was to know about publishing and finding agents. Well...how wrong I was. I have enough rejection letters for the past 32 years to wallpaper the walls throughout my house. I joined Romance Writers of America's New York City Chapter and what I've learned has been not only invaluable, but has changed my quality of writing.

I decided to change my style of writing because I was tied of reading about twenty something women finding the love of their lives. I am a mature adult, (maybe in age but not in mind) and being part of the baby boom, I realized that life started for me when I was in my forties. I have a different set of priorities and at 49, I feel emotionally and physically stronger than I have ever had in my whole life.

To me, there is more to writing than sex, sugar daddies and boy toys. I want to creative a story that the baby boomers could relate too. It took me all these years to realize that there is so much more to sex than the multiple orgasms. (Not that I would ever complain about that.)

I was married, now divorced and raising 2 kids on my own. (Who am I kidding. My son is 19 and my daughter 16, and both are on going on 30, so they think. LoL) I was mom and dad and spent a lot of time behind the wheel of the car. If I wasn't at my daughter's softball game (she's her High School Teams MVP Pitcher), then I was at my son's gig, (he's a musician/songwritereither) on Staten Island or at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan. I realized the books I wanted to read about were the ones about woman starting over and finding love.

That's what inspired me to start this blog as a way to channel others to share their thoughts on life in general, how they juggle a career and kids (grandchildren), and when they find time to write.

I feel that life begins at 50. We are the new 30, however, we're a little more wiser.

I'm going to be starting Nano November 1st and I'd love to hear from other women who are juggling families, career, and their writing.

The weekend is upon us, and I'm going to use it to work on my outline for Nano. Hope everyone enjoys their weekend.