It's never about us

After 1 Samuel 17:26-49 

It’s never about us,

this life we live,

this world we inhabit;

it never is. And it never

was about us. A drama

unfolds across the years, 

across the millennia, 

across time human

and divine, a drama

in which we play but

a small part. No, it’s

not about us, but

about the one who

has written the drama,

the playwright, as

it’s always been.

 

Photograph by Hamish Kale via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

“Psalm,” poem by Michellan Sarile-Alagao – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

Seeing God’s Faithfulness in the Mundane – Lara d’Entremont at A Mother Held.

 

“Softly and Tenderly,” hymn by Will Thompson – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

I Miss the Stars – Seth Lewis.

Every Writer Needs a Plan, Right?

The inspiration for my three novels, Dancing Priest , A Light Shining, and Dancing King, was a song. The story was gradually written in my head, and only there, for four years. When I began to pound the keyboard, it poured out – gushed, actually – for almost 250,000 words. Eventually, I shaped the equivalent of two novels from that original manuscript and had enough to write the third. But the story arc for the series was set by 2006. 

Along the way, the outlines, drafts, and ideas developed for five more novels using the same characters, ranging from a 4,000-word treatment to a 70,000-word manuscript. Somewhere in there two entirely different novel ideas popped up, one becoming a 60,000-word manuscript and the other a 1,000-word summary. And the ideas for three more novels in the Dancing Priest series have been rattling around my head, following the same process as the original – creation in my mind as I go to sleep at night.

Did I mention the 30,000-word novella? 

To continue reading, please see my post at Christian Poets & Writers.