Cynthia Harrison

My memoir looks at my writing life, both before and after publication.

I wrote my first (forever unpublished) novel as I waited for my first child to be born. I tried to stop writing and be a housewife. I loved the idea of a home and family so much. My mom was in so many ways a great mom, but in some ways so scary.

I have spent my life tending to the cares and concerns of keeping home and family, which was not perfect after all, because I could not stop writing poems, short stories and novels because that little writing fire would not go out. Aries like me are fire signs. One new way to write was blogging. My son did the most to help and encourage me to create cynthiaharrison.com in 2002. He did the difficult coding and things and I picked out wallpaper and wrote content. After being my website guy, he got married and had kids and now they are in school and growing and his family needed him to be with him. Also he has a career. So I was happy he found WordPress.com before I set him free.

I got another new idea of the website. This new blog might seem like a nutty idea but I liked it and the WordPress bots say people DO write books on Word Press. So this is what I am setting out to do. I have no idea how long it will take.