Writer/Illustrator

I wanted to be a writer when I was a little girl. I would spend large portions of my day imagining worlds with supporting characters, intrigue and princesses who flew in bubbles. I sailed through my english classes, always scoring high marks for creativity. (I would hardly ever receive a perfect mark because this was in the dark ages before spell-check, when papers were hand written. My lack of skill with punctuation and spelling was blatantly apparent in those days, marginally less so now)

Then I fell in love with illustrating and devoted 100 percent of myself into the visual world. I still have story ideas and sometimes sketch out something resembling a story. I also make up songs for my daughter much like Rebecca.

It's the completion of the story that gets me. I tend to fall out of love easily and have abandoned a lot of not so great ideas pretty darn quickly. I know that I need to learn to tweak and revise and revise again to polish my words but I would rather draw or read blogs. This is something I will work at as I have been told by several "industry professionals" (imagine that in a deep booming voice) that it will be difficult to match my images with someone else's stories. I think I will also look for writing groups to join because I need all of the encouragement I can get. Anyone know of any?