My name is Sharon Srock and I am an unpublished writer.
Writer? Me? That’s scary. Let me look at that again.
My name is Sharon Srock and I am an unpublished writer.
Not much more believable the second time.
Oh well.
My name is Sharon Srock and I am an unpublished writer, trying hard to get “un” erased from my bio.
As scary as that public admission is, I have another one.
I hear voices.
Voices…in my head…every day. At first I thought it was approaching senility. I’ll celebrate my 55th birthday next month. Believing in senility was easier than believing in the voices.
Then it got worse.
One day the voices began to develop individual personalities. They started whispering their stories in my ears and insisting I write them down. The voices can be VERY persistent and pushy.
Guess what? The voices all live in the same little town. A small place called Garfield, OK. I haven’t been able to locate Garfield on any map, but the Garfield Dwellers (sounds less spooky than “voices”) assure me that if you pick just about any small town in Oklahoma, you’ll recognize Garfield. Single street downtown, friendly people, a church on just about every corner.
Speaking of churches. The Dwellers all go to the same church in this little town, Valley View Church. There’s a group of ladies in that church, I call them the Women of Valley View, who live amazing lives. They’re just ordinary women. They have kids and grand kids. They have jobs, teach Sunday school, and fight with their spouses. And they use their faith to accomplish extraordinary things. I’d admit to liking them if they were the least bit real.
These ladies, it’s not enough that I’ve written down some of their stories, that I’m doing everything humanly possible to get them published, now these women want a blog.
I’ve tried to convince them that blogs are for REAL people, but they aren’t buying it. And, yes, this means that in addition to hearing the voices, I’m talking to them. Their offer of compromise is to allow me to blog about myself, on their site, when I have something interesting to say. Since the only thing interesting happening in my life, besides the voices, is my yearly vacation, you probably won’t hear from me very often.
So, since my next vacation is several months away, unless the men in the white jackets arrange for one sooner, I’ve decided to introduce the Women of Valley View to the world. It is, after all, what God called me to do twenty five years ago. (But that’s a scary story for another day.)
I hope you enjoy my characters as much as I do. Please share this page with your friends. More importantly, please join me in prayer that God will have his way with the stories, here, and the ones waiting to be published.
If you've been reading the blog since we started, you'll recognize this post as the one that started it all. I Thought it was important to keep this information up front, as it were, so that people viewing for the first time, 6 months from now, would know what was going on
