Welcome to Five Feisty Females
I’m Xan and I’m thrilled you are here!
Similar to many, I have dreamed of writing a book for as long as I can remember. I’ve had numerous false starts, and when I became a young widow and single parent, I was convinced that writing a book on my experience with grief - and the subsequent healing and personal empowerment - was a story destined for publication. And it well could have been, except, once I had my basic rough draft something unexpected happened.
I shelved it! Suddenly all those words and my online presence made me feel very exposed. My journey was tangled up with those of my kids and I didn’t want them to be exposed alongside me. I realised that that body of work was private, and not one for a wider audience. The writing of those words, thoughts, and experiences became a part of my process and an important stepping stone in leading me here.
This space is where I am playing with thoughts and ideas for my (second) book. Long-form writing with freely expressed notions - the raw, uncut, and unpolished version presented as ‘blog’ posts. I welcome and wholeheartedly encourage your input - let’s have a bit of fun. Together, we can create something special while I share the story of, Five Feisty Females.
They are five women - four sisters and the mother who raised them. They are each spectacularly flawed in their own fabulous ways. They are strong, united, courageous, independent, intelligent, and fierce. They love and are loved. They are a complicated web of friends and foes. Together they have endured so much, grief tearing at them yet creating who they are today.
I really have no idea how all this is going to unfold or if this experiment will work, but I’m curious to see what happens. This is a project from my heart and I’m not sure when I’ll launch my first post here, but I wanted to make a start by creating this space.
I would love you to join in this process. Let’s be curious together and see where it takes us.
