Journey To A Dream

On The Road Again

2008-09-21T21:32:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone..I know I have been missing in action. I am back and with a truck load to do. I am still on the road pursuing my dream. Published Author. Oooh that sounds nice. I am also learning to be more disciplined in writing this blog.

Since my last entry I have enrolled in the Christian Writers Guild school to learn more about my craft. I am working on my Selah womens newsletter, I am doing writing homework and reading books about my craft. I am journaling more and more everyday and just learning how to be the woman of God I am supposed to be to give myself to this dream.

The road to being published is long and hard but I will prevail. It is worth it.

Well I just wanted to give you an update and when my newsletter is done I will try to put a link for it on here if I can figure that out.

Love to you. Happy writing.
Selah

Back in the Saddle--Almost

2008-06-17T14:45:00.002-04:00

Ok I am back in the saddle again...almost again. I have been head writing. What is that you say. That is where I do all this writing in my head and creating a character and dreaming of my writing career and thinking and processing. But this week I started getting all that on paper. I am about a chapter into my book. Yippeeeee!!!!!! That was a miracle in itself. But I had to change somethings in my life to get to the process. I actually had to simply cut off the t.v. I didn't even realize it but I had become addicted to the t.v. late at night when I could have been writing. Not anymore. Me and my laptop are now best buds. So what am I working on.

My character sketches for my ya novel and my middle grade novel. Both for boys, males. I am so excited about it. I am giving them lives, families, school history, friends, neighborhoods, towns, birthdates, social security numbers, the works. etc. a life in fact. This takes works. I use 3x5 cards to do this and notebooks. My goal right now is to work on my writing life for 3 hours a day. Pray for me.

Ok til next time.

Selah.

Gonna Start Today----Gotta Get Published

2008-05-06T10:28:00.005-04:00

Hey everyone....today is a great day...I am writing....yes yes finally. My critique group is wanting to read and I need to get these ideas out of my head. So first thing first...clean out my desk and put the laptop up there and get organized. Pray for me. I need it. I have homeschool stuff to do, teach, dinner, the dogs, errands to run, exercise and prayer and now WRITING.....help.

My goal is to have two chapters done by Saturday and out to my critique group and friends to read.

Ok gotta go just wanted to make sure I am here.

Love ya.

Selah

One More Day on the Journey

2008-04-14T08:22:00.003-04:00

Well today is another day on the journey. I have cleaned my office space and am now in the process of organizing my laptop...Sallymae...but she is dieing a slow death. I really need a new one. Pray for me. Ok. I just found out I am now in a critique group with ACFW wow!!! totally excited about that. It gives me great incentive to now get that two chapters out of dust balls and send it in. Scary.

Ok not much to say today want to stay on schedule of writing.

Happy Writing.

Spring Is Here--I Know

2008-04-09T06:07:00.004-04:00

Hi everyone....gee...it is spring...have I gotten any writing done? No not on paper. But in my head. I have been playing in the "dirt" as my husband says. I have prepped my yard, cut the grass, planted begonias, geraniums, carnations and grape bush, raspberry bush and tomatoe plants. Put my hammock out to lay in and think when the kids are not calling my name or my two schnauzers not trying to jump in with me. Whew!!! I love outdoor work can you tell? I think if I was not a writer I would be a landscaper. I even put this secret Jerry Baker recipe mixture on my lawn to make it perk up and be green. Beer, cola, mouthwash, ammonia and dish liquid. Let's see if I burn up the lawn and it dies. OOOOpppss!!

Well whatelse has been going on---I helped my neighbor plant some flowers. We love pretty yards. My youngest son fell scratched his nose all up now he has the ugly scar for a few weeks til the color comes back oh yea and he fell asleep on one of those red carts in Lowes (of course while I was shopping for flowers) and anyway fell asleep sitting on it and rolled right off and hit his head and now has a goose egg bump. My fault huh?? NOT!!! I was just shopping for flowers. My oldest son says I am a flower junkie. GUILTY. Cleaned out a few closets and got my car fixed. Gee doesnt seem like much writing going on huh. No, it is..remember I am head writer first.

Anyway, I am getting a lot done in my head and some in my office. Organizing paper work and in my ACFW writers class on researching for a book. That is fun. In fiction you do have to research some. So this class is helping. I am presently a lurker in the class and keeping notes in a file for future use.

But mainly just trying to get my lawn and outdoor stuff done so I can enjoy the writing books I bought and get that first chapter revised.

What am I working on? I am working on the book the Lord told me to write 18 years ago. Fleshing out those characters mainly my main character--Leonard Mudbone Murphy. Wow that is the first time I put his name out in public. Then working on a YA book for boys about 12-17 years old. Mainly African American boys. Would love a series to come of this idea.

But my first line of attack to any of this is prayer and spending time with God...I make sure that I do that everyday in some part of my day. Today it will begin with getting a massage for a sore hamstring I am dealing with and meditating while laying there. I get all my creativity from God and his ideas. I am his tool to use. He tells me and I go from there. But like Myles Munroe says...Learn your craft be very good at it and then God has something to work with.

So let me go to work. See ya.. ..... happy writing!!!!

The Beginning

2008-04-01T09:35:00.002-04:00

Well, Hi there again. It is April 1....how did I get to this place of living the life of a dreamer. Living with such a big dream. It started like a lot of writers when I was a kid. I used to get allowance money and buy paper. Reams of notebook paper and pens and pencils and write plays actually. Really simple stuff. Nothing that would ever get to broadway. I love to read and loved to create people in my head. However, no one noticed this. My parents pushed me to go to college and be a doctor. So I went and hated it. Being a straight "A" student from K-12 you would think I would love college. HATED it, did I already say that. I couldn't get a B or C to save my life. Did I mention no "A" either. Well I did get one in racquetball. So after changing my major three times and being there for 5 embarrassing years I quit. God was actually calling me to something else but I did not know it at the time. Well I worked a regular job at a law firm and other places and finally the DAY. I was visited one day by the Holy Spirit actually. I was working at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and on lunch at my desk I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit just as clear as any conversation I have had with a human say to me on October 12, 1990...."Your going to write and book and be a writer and you are to write the words I give you". He told me the name of the first book and when I asked how am I to get something published he said not to worry about that part of it he would open those doors. From that day forward I knew this is what I wanted to do. When God spoke to me all that writing encompasses was infused into my soul. No matter what it is, how hard it gets, I know I was born for this assignment, to write the words He gives to show Him in the earth, to bring people to Him for His glory. What an awesome assignment. I am ready.

Introduction to a Dreamer - Part 2

2008-03-31T22:49:00.005-04:00

Welcome back. Glad you could make it. Before I begin the detail work of talking about my dream and the Dreamer (God) I must first thank my husband, Mychael. He is truly the love of my life who I have been married to for 16 years. He was and is a gift from God to my life and he has been my constant supporter. He has always believed in the dream within me and treated me like Pryncess that God said I was to him. No matter how hard I thought the dream was or unbelievable I saw it, he believed in me. No matter how many times I gave up (and that was a lot of times) he was there. No matter what we have gone through and endured he was there for me and without him on this earth next to me I could not give myself to the gift. He has tirelessly worked to support me and our family and never once complained about doing it. He has worked and allowed me to be the wife and mother I desired and that God wanted me to be. Sometimes supporting someone for such a long time in their dream can be very difficult, especially when you don't see anything manifesting or manifestation is very slow. But not my husband. He just keeps on believing in me and telling me I will be published in God's time. To him I say thank you, thank you, thank you and I love you very much. I am so glad you are my husband and that I would not want to go through this journey with anyone else but you. You will see the dream come to pass and not one day late will it be on its arrival.

Introducing the Dreamer- Part 1

2008-03-31T22:06:00.002-04:00

Hello. Welcome to my blog. Wow! This is great and such a pleasure for me. I am so excited you stopped by. Writing this blog is truly one of the greatest things I am doing for my life at this time. This blog is a journey. My journey to being a published author. No, I am not published yet in the real world but in the spirit world I am. I have thought for along time about doing a blog, after I learned what it was and still not too sure about that. But, this is my space in the cyber world to come to and leave my mark for people who want to read it. I wanted the blog to be about how my dream started and how I am progressing. I know, I know it may really be boring for some of you but it is my life and a very BIG part of who I have become. So check back as often as you like to see what is happening and take a peek inside how an author started out. I will give bits and pieces and try to keep you up to date. This is my space to write out one of my life verses.... Habbakuk 2:2-3 "Write the vision and engrave it so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may be able to read it easily and quickly as he hastens by. For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait earnestly for it because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day. God said, Dont despise small beginnings and this is my beginning and I cherish each and every moment because I have lived them.