Why I finally started writing

For a long time, writing was the thing I did around the edges of everything else — a paragraph between studio classes, a scene scribbled while the coffee brewed.

This is placeholder text for Mindy's first journal entry. The real essay will be written and approved before launch. It will talk, in her own warm voice, about the long road from stationery and Pilates to sitting down to write a novel.

Consider this a friendly stand-in so the page has shape, rhythm, and a sense of what's coming.