HARD TIME WRITING

I have been having a hard time writing this book.

BUSY.  Some of the difficulty is being so busy with other important things in my life. 

• Securing programs for our Rotary club,
• Our weekly adult class at church, which I teach
• Work with others launching a men’s ministry,
• The mastermind I facilitate with eleven of us,
• The daylily season is in May
• The trip to see family and the reunion at Princeton took two weeks
• Preaching a couple of times a month
• Working on my coaching skills
• …

THE LEARNING CURVE.  Although I have been writing thousands of words every week for five decades, writing a book is different.  At least it seems that way to me.

When I write for preaching, I am not as careful with spelling and grammar and punctuation.  Those are ultimately oral communications even though I write as I prepare to preach.  Writing a book where the ink will be on the page requires a lot more care.

A blog post or a short story for Facebook and even a lesson for a class or sermon for worship does have boundaries, for some reason writing this book appears to have some different constraints. 

DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AND AN ARC FOR THE STORY. A part of the learning curve is the development of characters.  I am telling a story in seven chapters.  It has a beginning, a middle and an end, like good stories do. 

It is a business fable which means it has some principles or learnings that it tries to communicate through the story.

So, I have to develop characters that are real and believable and authentic for the reader. 

I am enjoying the challenge, but it is a challenge.