Losing Focus

It's amazing how life creeps up and clutter your writing time if you aren't paying attention. But I'm still here and going forward.

I'm So Excited

I have to tell someone about my great writing news. It mighr as well be you. Ok, so I've writing this inspirational book since three years ago and every time I think its finished, God takes it to another level and blows my mind and gets me to the meat of the thing. Its a most satisfying experience.

Today was one of those days. As I edited, this time for development, I found that my editor was right. Areas that were ambiguous became so clear. Illuminations of God's message designed for the book shone bright in my mind and before my eyes I saw meaning. Meaning I've struggled trying to relate verbally came forth as easily as water flowing at the beach.

I am trully inspited. Infact I'm going to make a quote:"Dig below the surface until your shovel hits gold."

"DUH"

I've been working with a novel writing program called "Book in a Month a fool-proof system for writing a novel in 30 days," by Victoria Lynn Schmidt, PH.D. Of course it has been at least seven months of me trying to complete my novel. I kept getting stuck on day two which tells us to write ten essential scenes. Well that threw me for a loop. I am one of those people that write to discover. I kept asking how can I write essential scenes when I haven't a clue what will happen in my story? Today I figured it out. I asked myself what do I know about my story? I know about ten things I want to happen. It didn't hit me until now that those are my ten scenes. Duh! There will be other scenes that will lead up to the ten but the ten provides the framework of the story. I now understand on other times why I would get to a point and get stuck for years. With this method. it forces me to think out the story to the end. I'm sure that lots of material will end up on the editing floor but at least my story will be written- finally.