Let me catch you up!

Hello everyone,
Welcome to my blog site. I am so excited to be blogging, finally! Well, just to catch you up on where I am with my first novel. I started writing this novel in September 2006. I previously started writing another novel, but it wasn't Christian Fiction so of course I couldn't get the thing off the ground. Then I started praying and asking God to show me what he wanted me to write about and that's when it happened, He gave me this novel. And I am depending on Him daily to keep giving it to me because of course God didn't give me the entire novel that day! But I know He wants me to depend on Him throughout this process so giving me the novel that day might not have allowed me to "chat" with Him about it daily. God loves for us to "chat" with Him daily. When was the last time you talked to Him?

So fast forward to today...I recently finished revising my outline. A good author friend of mine, Stephanie Perry Moore (See Fon's Favs to check out her website!) helped me gain new direction for my outline. Now of course this is my first book, so I have tons of stuff to learn! But I never really liked outlining before I started writing, so my initial approach didn't quite get it done. So shouts-out to my soror and friend Stephanie for helping me on that front.

Now that I have refined the outline and I know where I am going, I have to start rewriting a couple of areas. You see, I was writing using my original outline, but now that I have refined it, I have to go back. Plus with Stephanie's help, I realized that my chapters sizes were all different...and I learned that you just can't have that kind of inconsistency. I've also been playing around with several titles. We'll discuss that in future blogs...

So now you're caught up on my journey! I know this is going to be a challenge, but I am up for it because I know that I can do all things through Christ...He really does strengthen me. I just gotta work on being more disciplined in my writing...so yall pray for me!

Until next blog...