Put Your Big Girl… or Boy… Pants On and Get Your Priorities Right
When you chose writing as an occupation, suddenly everyone has advice. Everyone tells you what you should be doing, how you should be doing it, and that if you don’t go by what they tell you, you can’t do it at all!
I’m here to tell you that’s not so and hopefully put your mind at ease a little. You can have it all–just sometimes, not all at once. When and how is strictly up to you.
Sheryl Hames Torres started making up stories as a girl to keep her five younger siblings entertained. She says she started writing them down to keep the voices in her head from having her committed. Vibrant settings and dashing heroes soon turned into real life when her family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where she met and married her very own Prince Charming. He taught her that sometimes reality is the fairy tale. Now, after more than thirty years together, she and Mark have reared one daughter–an artist and writer–and a son–a musician, mechanic, and automotive “restorer.” With a house filled with love and laughter, music and beautiful creations, lots of shedding fur from a ferociously friendly dog and a temperamental cat who thinks he rules the roost, Sher lives out her fairy tale every day. The Torres’ make their home in Northeast Georgia within three-quarters of an hour of her parents and three of those five siblings where she divides her time between her family, friends, writing and needlework.
And, of course, a lot of daydreaming…
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