Faye McCray

Hey folks! Welcome to my blog and my official coming out party! Yup, I, Faye McCray, am stepping out of the closet as a WRITER.

I have been writing since I knew how.  It started in birthday cards to my big brothers (apparently one involved an exploding birthday cake, hehe, I was a weird kid), moved on to endless notebooks and continued throughout college.  I always knew I LOVED to write but I had no idea how to go about making it a sustainable career.  So, like many people without a plan, I went to law school!  After almost seven years of practicing law, a husband, two beautiful baby boys and some freelancing later, I decided to no longer fight that voice inside of me that is constantly calling me to write and JUST DO IT.  This blog will document my journey!

Right now, I am still working full time as an attorney which I am coming to terms with (read Writer with a Day Job by Aine Greaney, you will too) but I am about 53,000 words into my first novel.  I am hoping to be completed by the New Year.  I just finished an awesome Advanced Writing Workshop with Barbara Esstman at The Writer’s Center where I received some great feedback and learned a ton.   I also belong to a great critique group in Baltimore.  If you are a writer, I can’t overestimate the importance of finding a circle of other writers.  We are a strange breed that finds divine contentment in making things up… think about that for a minute… who better to obsess over your imaginary friends with than other writers?!

Well, strange or not, I love to write.  I talk to my characters during my (lonely) commute to work, I memorize places I visit so I can write about them and I wake up in the middle of the night to scribble descriptions of hands in my notebooks.  I’m twitching, I’m itching… oh no, I caught it – I am a writer! Hope you will hang out with me as I head down this journey – whether I am a mass producing author who continues to produce in death or a little old lady with a ton of books under my bed, I am not stopping.

Love & Light,
Faye