Sherry McDonald Profile

Hi,

I am a small town girl who began writing at the age of ten. I have never had the nerve to even begin to get published as I've always felt so intimidated by my favorite authors. I'm not someone who can just read anything and I've actually never read a self help book unless it was written like a story. Fiction is my game except for some extradoinary memoirs I've read. 

When I was in my early twenties, I moved away from my birth state which was in the deep south to the northeastern part of the United States. It was here, I started my familly and began writing as an adult. Writing became a fabulous part of my life. I couldn't get enough and there never seemed enough time in the day to write. 

Then something changed and I became blocked. My energy level dropped and my devotion to writing with it. It would be several years before I discovered that I was suffering from Lyme Disease. Then, several more years of treatment before I felt like I could write a paragraph much less the two 300 page novels I wrote between the years 2000 and 2001.

I had a life long bestfriend that would always tell me, you should write a book about our lives and the experiences we had growing up in the deep south. She always reminded me that I was writer and often asked why I hadn't started writing again. I always assured her I would as soon as my writer's block left me. I thought I would have years to write and there never seemed to be a "right" time due to our ever changing world and the fact that while I lived in the northeast, she was still in the south. Our contact consisted of several phone calls a day and a yearly visit. She would come see me and I would go see her. It was all grand until the day I found out I lost her, my wingman, my cheerleader, my bestfriend.

This is my attempt to try and write again. I don't care if it is good writing, bad writing, terrible writing, fiction, self help or anything but words on a page as long as I am writing again. I owe her that much. 

I also remembered back when I wrote all the time I belonged to an online writer's group. We were small but we really worked hard helping one another and inspiring one another. I learned a lot back then and I hope to learn more now. I look forward to meeting fellow writers and reading your work. I take a lot of time in my reviews and really try to help where I can. It is important to me no matter what your goal that your words are treated as the treasured ideas and thoughts that they are. 

Love, 

Sherry