Letters to Ash

I am so excited for my current project--Letters to Ash.

It started off as an idea for a sort of mommy blog. I really love blogging and am so excited to be a mom; I would love to start my own mommy blog, but I want it to have my own personal twist to it; I don't want it to be just another blog in the masses. Ben and I were brainstorming ways that I could do that and came up with Letters to Ash.

We want to name our first daughter Ashton (we want to spell it differently, but we haven't come up with the perfect spelling yet) and nickname her Ash. I heard this name for a girl when I was in high school and fell in love with it. Luckily, Ben loves girl names that can also be boy names and really likes the idea.

We thought for my blog, I could write my thoughts to my future daughter. That would set it apart and make it more my style, as well as make it more personal. I loved the idea and set up the blog, writing post after post without publishing them. I wanted my blog to look great before I let it go public. We had all these ideas for pictures and I loved writing the posts.

One day, while writing more posts, I had the idea that it might be a good book idea. The more I thought about it, the more I excited about the idea I got. But, I thought, I would need to come up with a different name for the book because of my blog.

A few weeks later, Ben and I were out somewhere, talking about projects while we walked. I told him my idea for making it a book and he lit up. He agreed that it was a good book idea and that Letters to Ash was the perfect name for it. With Ben's enthusiasm backing my own, I decided to forgo the blog idea and turn this into a book.

I haven't worked on it a ton the past few weeks, but this last weekend, I was able to put a lot more work into it and it has got me excited all over again.

The book starts the day I found out I was pregnant. It has been kind of my pregnancy journal, in a way, with me putting my thoughts down in the form of a letter. This is nice because I'll always have these things recorded and it makes it easier for me to write from my own personal experience. At some point in the book (I haven't got there yet) I'm going to have to stop this because I want the ending to have a climatic ending (such as the main character losing her baby somehow probably) but I haven't figured that all out yet.

This is such a fun project for me, especially with me being so excited about babies right now.