Debbie Williamson Community

I started writing children's stories in 1990. I have been writing them ever since and have written over 750 to date. I have many characters for my stories. Some characters that I have created I have used only a few times and others I use a lot. The characters that I have written the most stories about are Fawn and Spot.

Most of my stories are based on true life experiences and others are based on random ideas or thoughts that come to me. Most of the time I just start writing and the story just flows from me like a water tap. Sometimes I don't even know how the story ends until I have finished writing it. I very seldom rewrite my work or proofread it. I feel that would take away from the way that I have written the story. I also think that my story writing is a gift that I have and I take that gift very seriously.

Now, don't get me wrong, I go through times in my life when I don't write a single word for months and sometimes years. However, I always seem to bring myself back and start writing again. Sometimes writing for me is a healing process, a way for me to deal with the complications and hardships of life. Other times I write for just pure enjoyment.

I have never had the opportunity to have "a normal" life because I was born with a disability, congenital chorrea. However, anyone that knows me well, knows that I don't let my disability stop me from doing the things in life that I enjoy. In fact, my disability does not get in my way one bit. Stubborn, you might say, oh yes. I am probably the most stubborn person around and yet for me, I think that being stubborn is probably the best thing for me otherwise I would have let me disability rule my life. I rule my life and no one or nothing else.

I have made a lot of decisions in my life that I am not proud of and I do wish that I could relive those mistakes and make them right. However, isn't making mistakes part of life and part of finding the real person inside of us all.

I also have many regrets and many losses in my life that have hurt me to no end. Take for instance my mother's death. That is something that hurts me so bad and even after six years later, I cannot deal with the pain that it has caused. I have put it in the back of my mind, where someday, I know it will come back to hurt me even more but it is also something that I really can't deal with. I think this is because I don't understand why she is gone and I miss her so much that it really is unbearable. Seeing her in pain for all those years before her death too definitely did not help matters one bit. The day my mother died is the day part of my own life was lost and I know I will never get it back. I hate death and anything to do with it. It scares me so much. I think that is one fear that I will never get over, ever.

My home life for the past year has just been a nightmare too. I am married to a wonderful man whom I love very much but there is something else in our lives right now has caused us so much stress and pain in the last year that it has affected my own health. This past year has just been one stressful event after the other. It is starting to subside now and hopefully it will stay that way too but it has scarred me and left me very bitter because I don't know the best way to deal with it and I have sometimes dealt with it in ways that I do regret.