The journey of a thousand words...
To walk a mile in my shoes, you'll have to start here. As my 43rd birthday came and went, I was anxious about having not yet achieved all the success I had hoped for, or made all the money I had dreamed of. While telling everyone for years (more like decades), "If I could do one thing in the world for free it would be to write," I took a leap of faith and started.
Now, just under three months over the gate, I have a novel that is currently being read around the world (hoping this short-story will be the second), am a monthly contributing Random Wattmag Writer, and am enjoying the success I dreamed of where money doesn't matter.
"My Wattpad Experience" chronicles several events that happened in a particular series of days, weeks, and months from start to finish. These events set the precedence for a life-changing, invaluable, experience that allowed me to get out of my own way and become the Writer I've always known I could be. Someone once said, "If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life." Well, here's to not working! May your Wattpad experience exceed all of your expectations, and may my experience help you navigate the way. The journey starts now. Are you in? Let's stack some words!
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Esme
Things can become clear in a second. When I found Tanner in his office with that woman, so many things became obvious. Tanner's always held himself back from me, but now, secrets and lies come tumbling out into the light. He's never loved me and he never will. I'm no longer willing to be a placeholder in his life, and I have to end our marriage.
Tanner
I'd been married for four years to someone I didn't believe I loved because I thought I still loved another woman. A woman I had to give up when I chose to marry my wife after I got her pregnant.
Now, the other woman's back, she's divorced and is telling me it's our time to be together.
Just as soon as I divorce my wife, who's pregnant with our second child.
The allure of the past was impossible to resist, so I gave in, met her at my office and my wife found us just...after.
So many things became clear to me even before I looked into my wife's devastated eyes.
What had I done?
I knew what I'd done, and now I had to prove to my wife that she's the one I want.