I am spending this week attending a writer’s conference put on by a group called Writing For Your Life. The conference itself is called Writing Dangerously, and it features some heavy hitters in the Christian publishing field. Already several times this week I have felt like what James Stockdale, Ross Perot’s running mate in the 1992 Presidential campaign, must have felt like when he said “Who am I? Why am I here?” It’s really easy to feel outclassed in this group. After all, I have never published a word. Yet I have felt a pull to write for a very long time, and these past two days have begun to light a fireunder me.
I know I want to write. The questions I need to answer are what do I want to write, and to whom? This is what I’m grappling with right now, and I have no idea where it will lead. I know i have a story I want to tell, but what story? And how will I tell it? Will I write a book or keep a blog going? From what I’ve heard so far this week, blogs are now considered kind of old school. But I think there’s still a lot they can offer. For me, it could be a way to tell my story over time, and potentially reshape it into book form later. I know people who have done this. I’m not really looking for monetary gain. I know anything I have to say will probably not sell widely in the mass market, and that’s okay with me. Right now I have the time and the freedom to do whatever I want. In a way this is liberating, but in another way it’s a little scary, honestly. Throughout my life I’ve never been really good at holding myself accountable. It’s time for that to change.
I guess what I am getting at, when all is said and done, is that my writing is very much a work in progress and wil probably remain so for a while. I have no time limit so I’m thinking I’ll do some playing around to see what works. In any event, like Rachel Maddow says, watch this space.
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