Writing … I don’t know about you but I love to write!! Essays, stories, reviews, songs, poems, books … you name it and I probably like to write it! At present I am working on writing a book. It will hopefully be my second completed book – well technically, it is my third. When I was about 12, I completed a book. It was called “Rose Showalter Minks”. I still have it – it wasn’t it very good but it was a start.
My second book is a “family” book … simple enough that even a young child could understand it. It is titled “A Year with the Potter’s”. In short it is a collection of short stories (mostly based upon true circumstances) about the happenings in the lives of the Potter’s, a family of six soon to be seven. It is much better than my first book though still not the best that I ever hope to write. I do hope that I can get it published soon, LORD willing.
Currently however, I am working on another book that is more of a novel. I formerly titled it “The Journey” but I do not very much care for that title … It just – somehow seems to be out of place, not to mention that it is rather bland and uninteresting. I have several chapters of the book written but I have gone back to the beginning to add more – I put a whole new chapter between chapter 1 and 2. I think it adds a lot to the story – I hope so anyway. The beginning was too rushed anyway; I just didn’t know what to do about it.
I can’t really decide how to write a summary of this book … so much is going on in it … Maybe when it is complete – or closer to being so. Much of it is based upon things that have gone on in my life, though there is a good deal of the fictitious going on as well. Several of my characters are based upon myself or people I know, including Christine, one of the main characters, a young lady in many respects like myself, but also, quite different from me in various ways. She is a Christian young lady, who has fallen away in her walk with the LORD. The book chronicles her “journey” as she tries to follow the LORD with all her heart. (That is where I originally got the title). Then there is Claudette – she is a character so different then Christine … She claims to be a Christian but shows no signs of it in her daily life. She has no relationship with her brother, she is rebellious towards her parents – and yet she takes an interest in Christine …
Those are just two of the threads that I am trying to weave into this tapestry … I can hardly wait to find a name for the book but I do terrible at naming anything so we shall see how long it will take me … Maybe I can decide on one by the end of the year …
To the KING be all the glory!
Sounds like a great story! I hope to read it one day. I personally haven’t written a book, but I did write a play last year. It was based on Elsie Dinsmore books 3 and 4.
Elizabeth
Hi Rebekah,
I made a mistake. Could you take my last name off? Thanks!
Elizabeth
I simply LOVE writing. (Or, to be more specific, writing books. And reviews for our blog. I’d write poems and songs–but I can never really get them to sound right or really rhyme. Worse yet, it rhymes and doesn’t make sense.) Your book sounds interesting. I would love to read it, too–when it’s done, of corse. ;D
From a feminine warrior,
Jamie Joyce
I fixed it Elizabeth! :)
I hope you both can read it! :D
To the KING be all the glory!
Rebekah
Thank you!
It sounds like it will be a lovely book! I can’t wait to see it in print! :D