Happy Wednesday, my writing friends!
Today I’m going to pause my “Tips from the Journey”
series. This week I finished edits for my next book, Love Finds You in Glacier Bay, Alaska, and as I cut, edited, and
re-wrote, I gained a great sense of gratitude for this awesome privilege of
being a writer.
Here are some aspects of the writing life, I’m most grateful
for:
A New World . I love traveling to new
places and experiencing marvelous adventures through my characters.
Emotional Intelligence.
To create real characters, I’ve become an amateur psychologist in a sense. This
knowledge blesses my own emotional health (a little shaky sometimes LOL!), and it
also gives me tools to help those around me.
Healing. Along with
emotional intelligence, digging deep into character emotions often heals my
own. In my latest book, a character lost his mother. My mom died when I was in
my twenties, and tapping into my characters' emotions renewed and refreshed my own journey.
Friends. If you’ve been
to a writers conference, you know what I’m talking about. I’ve made some of my
best friends through writing. What a joy to meet others who, like me, hear
characters in their heads.
Dependence on God. If I
ever think I’ve got even a tinge of control over my life, writing shows me
otherwise! Just this weekend, I had hours of editing ahead and a deadline
looming, when along came my enemy—migraine. Stuck in bed for the four hours I’d
planned to work, I had to trust that God would give me strength to finish the
next day. And He did. I have so many more stories of how God helped me through
a tough writing moment. I’m sure you do too. Writing constantly shows me my
need for the Lord. That’s the best part!
I could think of many more areas about writing to be
thankful for, but I’ll leave some for you. Share how writing blesses you. We’d
all love to hear.
God bless and happy writing,
Ocieanna
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