So Much Writing in on my novel!

I am so excited about my book! I’ve gotten over 24,000 words written on it in the past three days, writing nearly nonstop. The only other things I’ve been doing is eating and sleeping, and barely either. I eat at my laptop because I’m afraid if I stop writing I’ll lose the ideas in my head. Sometimes my food gets cold because I forget it’s there; sometimes it magically disappears and I can’t be 100% sure I’ve eat dinner at all but then I see the empty plate on my end table beside my armchair where I write.

This is the first time I’ve written a novel with main characters that are middle-aged. Usually my characters are in their mid-twenties, but this novel is coming so easily and I’m tapping into a lot of personal experiences that I then have to go back and change more details to make sure friends that were involved in various situations won’t recognize them, although some are very specific like me passing out on set during the filming of an episode of a TV series because it was hot and I didn’t care for lunch that day lol.  Pretty hard to disguise those details from my friends, so it will be kind of embarrassing for me if they read this book, which they will know about when it’s released because I’ll be posting the cover on my personal fb page.  I’m thinking when it’s finished, while it is in pre-order, I will post the first chapter here in OD. I am so excited about this book. I have a really good feeling about this.

I think I will spend today reading over the first 12 chapters of my book to make sure my writing tomorrow (although more likely I will write today as well) will be cohesive. I am so happy to be writing again! When I’m writing, I just know that I’m living my life on purpose. I was born with a passion for storytelling and when I do any other job, I feel like I’m dying. If I can just get back in my writing career where I was about ten years ago, and then go even further with it, I know I will be okay.

I believe that the Creator designed each one of us with a purpose and when we live from that purpose, everything unfolds just as it is supposed to. Like an acorn is small but within it, it contains everything it needs to become what it is supposed to be. But if an acorn was thrown into an ocean to try to be a fish or something, or algae or some sea plant, it would become nothing because that wasn’t what it was meant to be. When a person lives “on purpose” and follow their callings, I think that is what brings us to life and gives us true joy, no matter what kind of financial or other struggle it may take to pursue it, it becomes a delightful challenge because we know the end results will be worth it.

I think that when we begin moving in the right direction, our Creator clears a path, but He doesn’t need to begin clearing it until we start moving. That’s my theory anyway.