My Book made her a book lover.

'Your book initiated me into reading.'

My friend casually mentioned.

'What?' I ask, not sure I heard her right.

'Your book made me a book lover.'

I've tried to find words to describe the deep joy I felt hearing that, but none could do it justice.

My book made her a book lover.

Wow.

My friend's feedback took me back to when I first wrote and put my book out.

I got amazing feedback on it, granted I was a shitty writer at the time.

Years later my friend shared this screenshot of the genesis of her reading journey;

This is special because of what the journey of reading has been to me.

Its subtle stir in my being has been nothing short of compelling and I simply can’t imagine that mine led her on that journey.

My reading journey has been a journey of becoming.

That through different authors and different stories, I have learnt others, learnt self, evolved self and in a big way understood the great importance and utter insignificance of my story.

Years after I put out the first book draft.

I began avidly reading, consuming over 50 books.

Because of this, I decided to reread my first draft.

My God, was I horrified when I first read it.

It was horrible. I cringed the whole time reading.

I was such a rookie, I thought to myself.

Despite that, the overwhelming feeling was that of boundless pride, that I did put my work out there.

I shared my beginner, rookie, book.

And that’s the thing about creating...it is a carousel of lessons and growth.

I’ll probably cringe harder reading this in the future, because if you can’t cringe at your first creation, then are you really growing?

Remember;

Kill the part of you that cringes and Keep the cringe.

Don’t let the cringe die, have it for as long as you can.

After a lot of editing, I published it again and today, I would like to share it with you.

Because my book made her a book lover, here it is, in an attempt to make you one too;

https://sowl.co/ihkqV

To my first book, again

I release you, fly darling.

Enjoy.

You can also find it on amazon and across all digital outlets here;

https://www.draft2digital.com/book/819529