I captured this picture last spring during the super bloom of wildflowers northeast of Phoenix. At the time I marveled at how this plant found root in the middle of the hardness of the desert floor.
As I am working through the writing process of my book, I’m discovering that it’s a lonely place and it feels like I’m in the middle of hard. I’m grateful for Hope*Books, my publishing company, for giving me this chance to fulfill the call God gave me 15 years ago to write a book.
I love to write. I know what I’m writing about. I know this has been placed in me by my loving Heavenly Father for a purpose. But there is a learning curve.
Writing is full of emotion – from joy to sorrow!
Writing is full of memories – from good to bad!
Writing needs to be structured when it comes to producing a book!
Writing is hard!
I love writing these blog posts; God stirs up a message in my head and I sit down at my laptop and God gives me the words to say. I don’t have a required length, plot, or structure that is needed. I just write.
My editor has been helpful in giving me reading materials to learn the structure of writing memoir. I’m reading ”How To” books on memoirs, and I’m reading memoirs. I’m learning and I am understanding the madness behind it, but when I sit at my laptop… I have the story… but the “way” I need to write it, causes me angst.
I’m getting there, I have several chapters written. My deadline for the first draft of my manuscript is due early spring 2024. The first draft of my book cover is done. I’m excited about it. I love how my publisher does this cover early in the process, it gives a view of the finished product. I just need to write the words to fill it.
I hope that by late next year I will have my book in hand, and I can feel like that flower who was blooming proudly in the middle of the hard.
Thank you, friends, for your encouragement and support. You are the rays of sunshine, the nutrients that I need to bloom.
Excited with you Lisa! You’re a beautiful soul. I love the cover you chose 💖