IT'S WEDNESDAY: DON'T STOP BELIEVING

I know I’m a writer. It doesn’t take a long list of successful novels published to make that true. And while I’m at it, those stories all exist—in my head, dozens of them. The real trick is getting them down on paper, in a way that the reader can experience them in the same way I do.

I’m up to my ears in that process right now. I have this overwhelming list of things to fix from my editor for my first book, Return to Rainbow Ridge. They are all aimed at making the book better, not only in the technique of writing—grammar, punctuation and all that—but in conveying the story to the reader. That’s what is most important in my mind, and also the most difficult to achieve successfully. I have my work cut out for me, and then some.

When you add the holidays and all that they bring, Christmas activities at church on top of my regular responsibilities, plus some added things, like preaching again this coming Sunday, finalizing the church budget for next year, you can see my to-do list is longer than Santa’s wish list.

But, like the title of this post says, don’t stop believing, in the process, in myself, and in God’s work through me, whatever that may be. I know I can do all this. I will publish my books. The issue now is how good it will be, how much I can make it as great as I want it to be. That’s where the believing comes in-gotta have faith. Amen!