Glenna Gill

A10: #PubChat In five years when my kids are grown, I’d love to move out of South Florida and up to Asheville, NC, where I can write all day to my heart’s content.

A10: #PubChat I’d love to write as my full-time job. There are so many writers who helped me get established and write bravely, and I hope I can be a source of inspiration for new writers just starting out.

A9: #PubChat I’ve almost finished editing the book and will send it out into the world soon after three years of working on it.

A9: #PubChat I have a memoir almost finished. It spans a decade of my life through a divorce, drug addiction, mental illness, and an abusive new relationship.

A8: #PubChat If I can make myself sit down and write only a single sentence, I feel better and more words start flowing naturally. Just one tiny action like that can change my whole outlook.

A8: #PubChat I was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder several years ago, which is more depression and less mania. Although I have medication and therapy, there are days when the illness takes over.

A7: #PubChat It’s a good reminder to follow our instincts and rely on our inner strength. Dorothy had the power to go home all along.

A7: #PubChat In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy says, “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire, I won’t look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.”

A6: #PubChat I feel like I’m living in the second half of the game and know exactly what I want my life to look like at the very end.

A6: #PubChat I think when you get to be 50, like me, life becomes a lot more simple. My family is always at the top of my list, and so is my writing now because it’s been my biggest dream my whole life.

A5: #PubChat When I feel at my worst from depression or other circumstances, I remember that things turned back around in my favor every other time and I made it through.