Leaving The Past Behind

I am currently working on writing a book. It's titled Leaving the Past Behind. It is about this nineteen year old girl who has to make a choice to leave her family and hometown behind and follow her dream and heart to a new town. I will be posting updates about the book through this blog. I will be posting blurbs from the book and about the characters.

It starts with my main character walking home from her job at the local library as a nineteen year old young lady and she is thinking about leaving behind her mom and dad and their safe small town to live in another small town in a different state. However, in this small town she doesn't have to hide any part of her. There are a few things about her that she knows her parents would not approve of and so she hides them from her parents.

This story shows that people can outgrow their parents and their hometown but still have so much love for them. That is something that I want to show in this book because even though I moved away from my hometown but I still have love for my hometown. But it takes strength to move away from the town that says "this is all there is" and "there is nothing more out there".

I made it out of my small hometown. I made it out of the one place that told me that there was nothing else out there for me and there was never going to be anything out there for me and that I should just stay in that small town and settle for whatever loser I find in high school. Well, I didn't do any of that. I moved during high school. I graduated high school and went to college. Then graduated.

In 2015, I met my soul mate and in 2016 I married him. In 2017 we started two of our own businesses and we also started freelancing as a photojournalism team. So, it has been a super busy year for us!!!