Why the snowman you ask? Well, let me tell you a little story...
One upon a time, several years ago, Crystal and I reconnected and became fast friends... again. While our friendship was based 99% on text messaging we were still able to share many good times, bad times, and mostly the ins and outs of everyday life.
During our friendship over the past four years we have yet to live in the same city. Crystal currently resides in the wide expanses of Texas while I remain in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Which, in case you were wondering, is where Crystal and I met as impressionable teenagers in the first round of this friendship.
With the great distance separating us and the constant sounds of toddlers preventing us from having an actual telephone conversation we found ourselves in a constant texting conversation every single day. Through the amazing invention of the app called Emoji on the iPhones that we are both so glued to we are able to express almost every emotion needed to convey how we were feeling. With one exception... a hug.
Like the silly girls that we are we tried out several of the other remaining Emojis that were available but not regularly used in our daily conversations. We decided eventually on the snowman that has his arms extended and the smile on his face.
Ever since the snowman has made the cut as our official symbol to express a hug he has also been promoted to being something of a mascot in our friendship that explains who we are as friends, and as writers.
So when the time came to come up with something that described us both to use as our writing personality the first thing that came to mind was this simple little symbol that has meant so much in our lives.
So thank you to the snowman, and to whoever invented Emoji for the iPhone. You have not only brought Crystal and I closer with a metaphoric hug whenever needed, you have also given an identity to this dream that we are living out.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
In the beginning....
Wow! Okay...so here we go...this is the first post! And to be honest, it is my first ever blog post. I have always been a reader of others blogs, but I have never thought that anything I had to say was worth reading. Turns out, I was WAY wrong. Let me explain....
Back in the end of Sept 2011, my very best friend, Erin Rosch, and I decided to go on a journey with each other, we decided to turn some of our most sacred thoughts into our debut novel. Let me start from the beginning...
Erin and I met our freshmen year in high school, and were instant BFF's. By the middle of our softmore year we decided that boys and other friends were a bit more important than our friendship. (crazy, i know, but that is the life of a 15 year old.) Many years later we reconnected through the wonderful world of social networking. We were surprised to learn that our similarities, although different as an adult than as a teenager, were still as strong as ever. Both happily married, each with a son and a daughter, and we were both blessed with the opportunity to stay at home and raise our children. Our friendship rapidly grew into one of love and mass respect for one another. More than any other similarity, we share the love of literature. We found ourselves pulling all nighters just to finish a great book.
This brings me back to September of 2011 when our journey began. While struggling to find ourselves in this great big world, we realized that we already knew who we were. We were passionate readers, and ones with the intelligence and creativity to live out our own dreams. Dreams of becoming writers. So with that, our laptops, facetime, text messaging, and one wild dream we began to write.
January 13, 2012 we finished the last chapter in our debut novel, which currently holds the title of Grace Eternal. With much persistence and enjoyment, we hope to find the perfect agent to represent our work, and ultimately we dream of seeing our very own manuscript transformed into a book sitting on the shelf.
Welcome to our blog! We are excited to take you all along with us on this amazing journey!
xoxoxo
Back in the end of Sept 2011, my very best friend, Erin Rosch, and I decided to go on a journey with each other, we decided to turn some of our most sacred thoughts into our debut novel. Let me start from the beginning...
Erin and I met our freshmen year in high school, and were instant BFF's. By the middle of our softmore year we decided that boys and other friends were a bit more important than our friendship. (crazy, i know, but that is the life of a 15 year old.) Many years later we reconnected through the wonderful world of social networking. We were surprised to learn that our similarities, although different as an adult than as a teenager, were still as strong as ever. Both happily married, each with a son and a daughter, and we were both blessed with the opportunity to stay at home and raise our children. Our friendship rapidly grew into one of love and mass respect for one another. More than any other similarity, we share the love of literature. We found ourselves pulling all nighters just to finish a great book.
This brings me back to September of 2011 when our journey began. While struggling to find ourselves in this great big world, we realized that we already knew who we were. We were passionate readers, and ones with the intelligence and creativity to live out our own dreams. Dreams of becoming writers. So with that, our laptops, facetime, text messaging, and one wild dream we began to write.
January 13, 2012 we finished the last chapter in our debut novel, which currently holds the title of Grace Eternal. With much persistence and enjoyment, we hope to find the perfect agent to represent our work, and ultimately we dream of seeing our very own manuscript transformed into a book sitting on the shelf.
Welcome to our blog! We are excited to take you all along with us on this amazing journey!
xoxoxo
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