It is hard to believe but I am back. It has been almost two months since my last missive and I have missed writing to this blog.
The biggest struggle was what to say so I said nothing.
On Writing:
I was lamenting the fact that I seemed to be on this writing trip alone with no support. It was a pity party and it was my fault, not anyone else's.
I often get encouragement from friends and…family. Family is where I really felt the lack of support, however. That is until Father's Day.
I had a really nice Father's Day with the family even though Alyssa was not overly thrilled with going to the Kernals baseball game but she was a trooper.
Logan got to go onto the field and throw with his friends for about 30 minutes after the game which was fun for him and I enjoyed watching the whole thing. I love to see my family having fun!
When we got home they had me open my Father's Day gift and along with some much needed clothes I received a good book on plotting and then it struck me like a ton of bricks: My family is very supportive of my writing! As I look back over the past year they always are buying me new tools for my writing "workshop" and that, to me, is tremendous support so I was wrong once again! (I stopped tracking all the wrong things I did(do) a long time ago! J)
I praise the Lord for my family and friends.
There are times I seem to really flounder but they all keep encouraging in their own loving ways. I take all the comments and advice in with a great sense of love and it has been encouraging.
As I look back on the time since I first was encouraged to start writing and the storyline I came up with at that time, I see a nebulous mass of ideas that just seemed to be floating about aimlessly. Since this was happening nothing was really being put on paper and I despaired of ever getting a story on paper. Maybe, I would think, I am thinking too grandiose and I should try short stories, but my heart will not give up on the idea of a novel and that is where I am going, full steam ahead!
Over the past couple of years this nebulous cloud has condensed and the ideas are becoming firmer. Each new idea adds to the overall picture that is forming in my mind and becoming more of a reality.
Now, I realize that this first story, or any after it for that matter, may not go anywhere but if I can get through a whole novel and be happy with it that would be very good. I still would not be satisfied without being published but there would be a great deal of satisfaction to just finish a book.
I now have one full page of a 30,000 foot view of the story and the pieces coalesce into a tighter and tighter picture and that just excites me to no end!
I am more excited now than I have ever been about this project and actually feel like I have a purpose for this story.
I know it is still not a walk in the park and a ton of hard work still awaits but I am really looking forward to this challenge. I want to create like my Heavenly Father who created me!
This all started when I turned over all of this to the Lord's will.
He has now been giving me the discipline and the ideas to move forward.
He makes me want to be more diligent.
Keep praying for me as I endeavor to glorify Him through this work!
Bye for now! Thanks for listening.
Greg
