Many of you have been reading
this blog and know that this dyslectic author can't tell a misspelled word or a
misplaced comma anymore that she...I mean, I can write anything worthwhile
without it being God inspired. I know! I've tried and the truth is that left to
my own resources I can misspell a word incorrectly six ways from Sunday. And
punctuation, .don't even get me started on that! So given that my writing
blindside is about as big as the biggest barn you've ever seen, and as high as
the eagle can fly, I've discovered a few things:
1).If a reader falls in love
with your story they'll overlook the occasional opps'.
2). If you're getting
slammed because of mechanical issues look at your story.
3). Stories with tension on
every page keep readers reading.
Have people told you they can't
put it down? Or have you been told that the reader reads many books at the same
time? If the latter is what you've heard then be assured that person was not captivated
by your book.
"I'm okay on all of
those," you say.
Great! Then you're where I am! I
say that because my books are getting rave reviews, so much so that I'm
astounded. And perhaps that's why my inability to even see if an edit was done
well or not is becoming an issue.
Or maybe, and I really think
this is the case, God knows it's time to stretch me again. I really do love
Jeremiah 29:11, which says, "For I know the plans I have for you,"
declares the Lord, "plans to proper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you a future and a hope," but just now, I must admit, I don’t want be
stretched! After all I've been on this writing journey with Messiah since 2007, given up a lot, and
gotten...well...meet a lot of wonderful people. You know those that can't wait
to help. Like the friend who wanted to read the first manuscript of Casa de
Naomi: The House of Blessing, Books One and Two so badly that she told me her
spiritual gift was editing and found very few errors but loved the books. Or
the publisher whose contract read like they were going to do it all, but...
After years of prayer,
work...really, really hard work and dedication, I finally realized that left on
my own, I don't make good, I should say, God decisions regarding my books
editing or publication! So, I finally realized that besides praying, and trying
to figure out what's best...with my husband’s help of course, I need to
remember the wisdom found in Proverbs 15:22, for it says, "Plans fail for
lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed."
Having reached the precipice I
could not scale, I knew it was time to send up the S.O.S.! Now doing what Gods
Word says to do sounds easy when it's read. But really adhering to the meaning
IN those 11 words was anything BUT easy....
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