<p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(18, 18, 18, 0.75)">Even the best-laid plans are subject to life and the glorious upheavals it brings. Add in wayward ducks-in-a-row and a misbehaving writing muse, and no force in heaven or earth could plan or plot a straight path to a lofty goal.&nbsp;</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(18, 18, 18, 0.75)">From high-maintenance felines to optometrists, from equipment failures to busted thyroid glands, Life Along the Way is a series of 100 blog posts highlighting one beginning writer's pie-in-the-sky writing dream.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(18, 18, 18, 0.75)">Author B.A. Paul looks back at how she began, the lessons learned, and what the future may hold. Hopes, dreams, and fears - interspersed with giddy little jump-and-squeal moments - turn her review into part memoir, part writing adventure - with well over a hundred little lessons learned if only for herself and her Little Miss Muse.</span></p>