Well, I'm in the middle of another wait....if you don't know already, I have a friend who is taking a look at my query letter, synopsis, and three chapters. He is newly signed, so I'm really excited that he has an interest in what I'm doing. No matter what, this is definitely better than doing it all on my own, and I'm so thankful that God is taking some of this off of my shoulders. I was beginning to buckle and the next step would have probably been backing out altogether.
Funny thing, waiting. Right here in the middle of it, I feel like I don't know what to do with myself, and I had to begin a sequel so that I didn't edit my first manuscript into the ground. I think I probably should be taking the time to relax, and I have for the past few weeks -- at least in the arena of writing. The arena of home remodeling is a totally different matter, and I have yet to tame the beast -- in fact, I think I might be the one who's broken when it's all said and done. But I have found a kind of oasis in this crazy no-man-land of waiting: God has a plan in it all. The timing is up to Him, and it's already planned to the nth degree. Right now all I have to do is.....nothing.
Well, that's not exactly true. I do have three more rooms to get to, so........
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-- Henry James
"Then there is Me of course; but I am only the chorus that comes at the end to explain things. So I do not count." --Rudyard Kipling
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- moods (7)
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- questions (5)
- writer...interrupted (2)
Of Interest
"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time...the wait is simply too long." ~Leonard Bernstein
"Always be the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
e.e. cummings
"Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences."
--Sylvia Plath
"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don"t read."
--Mark Twain
"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
--John Steinbeck
"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
--Emily Dickenson
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
--C. S. Lewis
"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
"Find out what your hero wants, and when he wakes up in the morning, just follow him all day."
"The best time to plan a book is while you"re doing the dishes."
--Agatha Christie
"You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify them or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Think Different!"--Steve Jobs
Some reading in 2007
- Animal Farm--George Orwell
- Bad Girls of the Bible--Liz Curtis Higgs
- By the Light of the Moon -- Dean Koontz
- Collected Stories -- Rudyard Kipling
- Dirty Hands--Jean-Paul Sartre
- Friend of My Youth--Alice Munro
- Get Out of that Pit--Beth Moore
- Redeeming Love -- Francine Rivers
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
- The Creative Call--Janice Elsheimer
- The Flies--Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Heir--Paul Robertson
- The Last Juror -- John Grisham
- The Pelican Brief -- John Grisham
- The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde
- The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage--Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- The Screwtape Letters--C. S. Lewis
- The Silver Chair--C.S. Lewis
- The Sin Eater -- Francine Rivers
- The Street Lawyer -- John Grisham
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Waiting...I'm trying to learn to do that well too! Once while going through a major life crisis, the Lord played this whole scene out for me in my mind's eye of the two of us strolling along a woodland type path. It was a beautiful, sunny day and He was in no hurry. Not only did He walk slowly, but then He sat down! I urgently wanted to keep going, but it WAS Jesus I was walking with, so I feigned patience and stood there while He smiled and took in the scenery. It wasn't long before I was downright irritated by the whole thing! It was almost comical to watch myself act this way in my mind's eye, seeing myself get irritated with Jesus. Then He told me that this is how He sees my life. He has His timing and isn't worried an ounce while I have my timing which is inevitably "off", therefore filling me with anxiety! *L* I had to laugh...He was so right. Indeed, it is good to wait upon the Lord!
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