01/08/2022
Five years ago today, I had just completed my first band camp of teaching. It was a wonderful experience and it sparked inspiration in me!! I spent the week between that camp and the one with KSUMB (the band at Kennesaw State University) writing as much as I could and following this muse of inspiration. At the end of that week, I had written 150 printer sized pages (what would probably be 300 trade paperback pages) of a project that would become my first published work, "The Woman of Fall: Modest Beginnings." That was not enough, though...this honeymoon phase yielded another 100 printer sized pages over the next 6 months. I wrote on the way to and back from the Lunar Eclipse, between classes, over entire holiday breaks...everywhere and anywhere. I can still point out the parking spot on KSU'S campus where I made a massive break through in my writing one day before choral methods. The point is...it wouldn't stop. It's the most that a story has ever inspired me to write. Because of that initial 6 month period of intense creation, there is AT LEAST one chapter already written in each of the next seven installments of the story. When this day comes around every year, I celebrate the muse and inspiration that life is. I also celebrate Lucy, the story's protagonist, and the "friendship" she has "given" me. I can't wait to continue exploring her world and I can't wait to keep sharing that world with you. Happy 5th birthday to the project I affectionally call The "WoF!"
Kaelyn Putnam
