Amazing

If there's one thing I've learned about people, it's that they are consistently amazing. Seriously. I don't care if it's the librarian who looks like she drank a bottle of lemon juice with her breakfast, she is amazing...if you get to know her. She may not have a personality you totally adore, but she has some qualities, or she has had some experience, or she has some habits that would floor you. It's true.

As far as character development, this has to impact me in some way. I can't write about the good girl character who always did thus-and-such and maintains the same course until she dies on her starched sheets at a ripe old age. There has to be something deeper than that -- something that twists my preconceptions, at least by the middle of the book. There has to be something that challenges me to think differently, something disconcerting or striking or brilliant about her that I wouldn't have known unless I'd gotten to know her as a reader. Otherwise, I'm not representing true life, and the people that we encounter every direction we turn. Because every one of them would amaze us, if we got to know them...

Probably more about this later. I'm not committing to anything today:)

No boring story

Well, the binge of procrastination is finally over. I started getting a little sick of the feeling and so I decided to do the synopsis thing, which was actually rewarding not so bad bearable. I have to admit, Camy Tang's synopsis series from Writer...Interrupted (ping) kept me from suffocating to death under all the restrictions of a task like this. Can you tell how much I love parameters?

So, I'm steadily droning away on this project, and at the same time I'm thinking about the possibilities ahead and it strikes me like it has over and over again the past year how I would've never planned this in a million years. I mean, sure I love to write -- it's like second nature, really and I would be insane unless I did it -- but I would've never seen the point in writing a whole novel. It's just been too enjoyable to be something I would consider a goal. And then I think about the Lord, and about all the people out there that think what He has for us to do is boring and predictable (like writing the synopsis has been for me because I already know the whole story) and how His plan is much, much, more creative and inspiring and suspenseful and addictive than anything we have even seen on the shelves. That's the big deception, isn't it, the blue sky and clouds view of heaven and the straight-laced, boring view of a Christian's life on earth. No, I would've never expected Him to do this in my life in this season, , and it's opened up my mind to who He really is in amazing ways. And, like any successful writer, His outline of my story is already completed to the final chapter, and I can tell you one thing: it will not be a boring story.

That's a great thought to finish with as I close this window and open back up the wildly exciting synopsis...