My name is Heather Dyer and I am a creative person by nature… I always have been. In a complicated twist of fate, I ended up happily in a very scientific job. I work as a pediatric hospitalist physician at a children’s hospital in the Chicagoland area.
This is not to say that medicine does not have its creative components. Certainly devising a way to explain asthma to a 5-year-old requires creative thinking, but often I feel the need to throw myself into creative projects on the side.
I have always at least vaguely wanted to write a novel. Countless times I have described an idea for a story to my husband, whose replies gradually evolved from “Yeah, that sounds great!” to “Yeah, right. Why don’t you actually write one already?”
On October 18th, 2007, that vague nagging desire turned to burning and I finally got started. A month later, I’d begun to believe that I would actually finish and I started this blog to chronicle the process.
Just as I’d never written a novel before, I’d never blogged before, either. But I hope I’m getting the hang of both. 
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I too have never blogged, I just started one, and have always wanted to write a novel. I worked in aviation electronics, info technology, all techno-weeny stuff, before tossing it all out to be just a housewife. I purchased MacJournal & StoryMill for my mac to get started. It’s further than I’ve ever gotten before to actually begin writing creatively, except for that stuff college requires.
Your doing a fine job on blogging. Keep up the good work, and I can’t wait to see that Novel.
Newbie blogger here! Been at it a grand total of three weeks, and already it’s addictive. I have written a novel and it’s in the let-it-sit-far-away-from-me-so-can-get-some-objectivity stage, and I’m writing a new one as well. It’s impossible to stop writing once you’ve started down that precipitous creative side road. Best of luck to you!
KJ
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