I’m happiest when I immerse into my imagination as my fingers dance over the keyboard to make the mental vision pop into words on the screen.  And it is divine.

When I’m writing, the world fades away.  Time seems to stop, except every time I glance up, more hours have whizzed past.  Or all of a sudden I realize, It’s dark and I’m still in my pajamas.  Some days, I’m writing from 9 a.m. until 1 a.m.

“Oh, so you’re just a writer,” a professional man said to me at a recent event where I was autographing books.

I wanted to sass back:  “YOU sit at my desk for 16 hours and see what YOU come up with!” I was polite, of course.  Because his oblivion to the immense concentration required for writing… well, I just didn’t care what he thought.

Because I know what goes into crafting an excellent novel.  The plot, the setting, the characters, the research, the long hours of concentration.  I know the amazing sense of fulfillment and pride that I feel after writing a scene, a chapter or a whole book.

It is PURE BLISS.   It’s so blissful that I did it on one of the most celebrated days of the year.  Of course I enjoyed the family festivities just as much.

I hope that today you can Find Your Daily Bliss by doing something you love so much, you’d do it on Christmas.  Celebrate!