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Ellen Heirbaut | Debut Author

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Debut author. Reader. Parent. Expat 🇧🇪 🇺🇸
This account follows my book's emotional arc of a bruise healing, one color at a time.
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Hi, I'm Ellen. I'm writing a book about Emma, who had to lose everything to find out who she actually was. I know her pretty well. I think you might too. This account will follow the book's emotional arc of a bruise healing, one color at a time. We start in black.

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It had always puzzled Emma how he could go from all those words to no words. How could he afterward sleep so soundly, while she lay wide awake?
- from A Year In Color (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

He might be gone, but his presence lingers.
- A Year In Color (work in progress)
#purple by @ellenheirbautwrites

"Their relationship deserves to be regarded more. Their family deserves to be considered more. Their decade together deserves to be respected more." - A Year in Color (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

She had seen their anger, their bitterness, and their sadness, and how they grew until you could no longer see where one ended and the other began.
— A Year in Color (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

Where once was pity, is now judgment.
— A Year in Color (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

She is not ready to explain. She's not sure she'll ever be.
- from A Year In Color (wip) by @ellenheirbautwrites

Uttering the words would acknowledge them, and it is so much easier to leave things unacknowledged, to leave them in limbo. Things that are in limbo, are things that are ongoing.
— A Year in Color (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

Deep down, she knows that her best friend is long gone. She is on her own. Maybe she has been all along.
- from "A Year In Color" (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

What blue can feel like

- from "A Year In Color" (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

Misery might love company, but company sure hates misery.
- From A Year In Color (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites

It takes compromise, they say, yet they never care to explain what to do when you've compromised yourself.

It takes dedication, they say, yet they don't bother adding the disclaimer that a marriage is made of two people, and not one.

— A Year in Color (work in progress) by @ellenheirbautwrites