My Personal Journey In Life

Affirmation. The exercise for this week was to affirm that we are an author, and then post a video supporting that. It was hard for me to even take in the fact that I am writing. I guess up until now I just really wasn’t considering myself an author. An author is a person who has a successful book on the New York Bestseller list, selling millions of copies. That’s not me. I haven’t published one word yet. Then I started thinking. I have written a lot over my lifetime. I have not only written college papers, grants, lesson plans, programs, plays, devotionals, and presentations, but I have written stories in my diaries that no one else has ever read. Why would I not consider myself an author? Why is it that we don’t consider ourselves anything until we have reach a certain level of what others think of as success? Why do we not celebrate the starting of something as a step in the right direction? A beginning of something bigger, that may even go in a direction that we did not ant...

Clarity So here is the start to my blogging reboot. I have now went through my first two weeks of the writing tribe I belong to, and am still feeling good about this journey. Right now I am working on the writing proposal which is an exercise in planning out how your writing goes. It is what Kary Oberbrunner calls getting “clarity”.   So even though I think I know what that means, I decided to look clarity up for a reference. Clarity means, “the quality of being easy to see or hear; sharpness of image or sound.”¹ This means that I need to focus my story and my message so that others will “see” and understand what I am writing. Okay. So what is it that I am trying to say? What profound, earth shattering message do I have for others? Then how am I going to take that message and wrap it in a fictional story symbolizing all the points I hope to make? Yes, this is proving to be a tall order for me. I have been carrying around this story in my mind for years, but now ...

So here I am.... I am making some adjustments to my blog to reflect where I am three years after I started this journey.  I have adjusted the name for my blog to include where I am heading in the future.  I hope that my friends, family, and hopefully others will follow my blog, because I truly want to inspire, encourage, and maybe even entertain the world around me. The next few months will have to do with a literary journey that I am going on.  Yes, I have taken a step that I have wanted to do for a long time.  I have decided to try and write a book!  I have had stories chasing around in my brain for years, with vivid pictures and happy endings.  So now I have decided to try and write some of them down.  I am not going to do this alone.  I have actually joined a writing/publishing/marketing group that will help me get this done in a timely manner (because I know there is times I won't do it if I am not pushing a deadline). The group seems to be...