Part Two of Bellflower Park takes place in the present day. Tess is in her mid-forties now, divorced, and is still just as snarky and sassy as she was as a teenager. She has settled into her life as a curmudgeon, and she is officially Over Everybody’s Shit. She’s counting down the years/months/days till she can retire from teaching, and it’s been a good long time since anyone has…ahem…rocked her world. While I have a general story arc in mind for Tess, and I pretty much know how this book ends, I still have a lot of gaps to fill in. If I ever actually finish this, I’ll be sure…

Bellflower Park is the working title of the novel I started writing for NaNoWriMo 2022. It was my first time ever attempting to write anything longer than a Facebook post since I graduated from college. I always thought there was no way I could write fiction, because I have always had a mental block when it comes to writing. This goes way back to my high school days. I would have ideas in my head of what I wanted to say in essays or research papers, but the process of translating that into the written word was just something I couldn’t master. Over the past couple of years I tried…