What is your message that you want to write about?

Marina O'Brix
May 6, 2019
3 min read

Hey Everyone,

Today, I was thinking about what I wanted my books to be about when I

first started to write them. The Drive Series is a metaphor so to speak. As

you are in a car what do you look out the most. The front windshield, right,

so in seeing this we often look in to our future destination. However, we

also see three different other views as we ride along. We look at our side

views to show our directions to which we must move to. It is either the left

or the right and we change them accordingly. Then we must also look back

over our shoulders a time or two; to make sure we don’t make same

mistakes again.

This is much like my series; a teaching lesson if you will. In my first book,

Her Million Miles, Sabrina seeks out her past through her parents’ eyes

which this is looking back over her shoulders to make sure she doesn’t

make the same mistakes they did. In the second book, Imperfect

Crossroads, Sabrina finds her way long enough to see which direction she

should take in her life. This is in the case of looking from different

perspectives of her life.

In the third book, Oliver’s Road, Sabrina is yet again facing down her

perspectives as she faces several foes from her past, present, and quite

possible futures direction. However, in the fourth book, Journey’s End,

Sabrina must decide if her future is her directive in life. This is which she

must glaze through the front windshield as her life drives toward

something or someone. However, I can’t divulge what happens in this

book any more than I should since hasn’t been written.

Although, the metaphor is there for this series. There is also a word for it

as well and that word is “Truth.”

When I started to write this series; I myself included had to learn my own

truth. I had to seek my truth if I was a good enough writer as so many in

my past told me I wouldn’t amount to anything in my life. I had to find my

own truth knowing I was a good writer, a dreamer, and a determined soul

to pursue my dreams. A wonderful friend once told me, “I had to accept

the things I cannot control but I could accept the ride of a lifetime ahead.”

Just as Sabrina must decide if she, herself can accept her own destiny.

Both Sabrina and I are a lot alike and yet different. She will decide in

“Journey’s End,” if she can live her truth as I will too in mine.