Things are crazy right now.
Classes are insanely hard (when Dr. Musser told me grad school would knock me off my feet, he definitely knew what he was talking about...).
Nathan is sick, and has been for about a week.
Kids are just plain crazy, as would be expected of a 3 year old and an almost 6 year old (hard to believe my baby girl is going to be 6 in 2 months!).
I crochet anytime we're watching t.v. (in part because it keeps me awake).
When I get a spare minute, I try to write on the second part of my Sons of Tundyel story.
I'm attempting to put together query letters and submissions to send out the first part of my story.
Classes are insanely hard (when Dr. Musser told me grad school would knock me off my feet, he definitely knew what he was talking about...).
Nathan is sick, and has been for about a week.Kids are just plain crazy, as would be expected of a 3 year old and an almost 6 year old (hard to believe my baby girl is going to be 6 in 2 months!).
I crochet anytime we're watching t.v. (in part because it keeps me awake).
When I get a spare minute, I try to write on the second part of my Sons of Tundyel story.
I'm attempting to put together query letters and submissions to send out the first part of my story.
As an aside, according to his biography on Acheivement.org John Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was rejected by 28 publishers before being given a chance by an unknown publishing house. It sold 5,000 copies. His next book was The Firm and it sold more than 7 million copies and spent 47 weeks on the best sellers list!
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| Map for my story--Nathan painstakingly transferred my hand drawn one to paint! |
In the middle of all that, though, I've started working on something else.
Yes, I know I'm crazy. I know there's something called having too many irons in the fire. I know all the arguments against it, believe me--I've argued most of them to myself.
The thing is, though, there's something that's been tugging at my heart for a while now.
I write to work through emotions. I always have, and I imagine I always will. Actually, I write to work through everything. My Bible is full of notes written in the margins because when something sticks out I have to make myself a note or I'll forget it. I've tried having notebooks reserved for that, but they get lost. The notes in the margins stick around a lot better, especially if you're as unorganized as I am!
This blog was the first step in me living faithfully, trying to step out in faith to do what God wants me to do. The next step, apparently, is writing down my story.
I have so many conflicting feelings about doing this. The biggest part of me is saying, "Why in the world would anybody want to read a story about your life? What makes you think there is anything in the story of a 28 year old girl's life that is worth other people reading?"
If you know me, you know how much I keep to myself. You know how incredibly painful this blog has been for me at times.
Which means you also know how hard it is for me to say yes to writing my story down.
I'm not saying that it is going to be something that I try and get published or anything like that. Most likely it will simply be something my kids can read one day when they are trying to understand the crazy woman that is their mother!
I love this! Yes, I might think you are a little crazy to do this amongst everything else, but aren't people the most productive when they are insanely busy? I will, however, want to read it when you are done :) If you need any stories, I happen to have a few about you! LOL :)
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