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Admittedly, I wrote this for my work. We're doing the A to Z Challenge over at Written World Communications' blog Exordium. H and I are not Homeschool related. H was just a little rabbit trail. (no I didn't use the hatchet on the rabbit) I is just because I wrote It for work. Interested in writing for a living, writing for magazines? Then come check us out at WWC.
And now for a break from your regularly scheduled program:

Impetus

What is the driving force behind your writing? Are you writing a memoir? Are you writing down the voices in your head, those characters that seem to come alive when you close your eyes? 

One of the most quoted movies around our house is Finding Nemo. “Keep swimming, keep swimming”. We often use it to motivate a child whose momentum has slowed. We use it when we are trying to point them in a certain direction. It’s an encouraging tool, sometimes impatiently, to move on in the same direction.

Does your writing “keep swimming”? What motivates you to write just one more sentence when the priorities of life are calling? What compass are you using to make sure your novel is moving in the direction you intended? Are you in a writer’s group or a critique group as an encouraging tool? Even when you think you’re the only one who hasn’t typed one word this week? 

The book of Habakkuk in the Bible God tells us that faith will be rewarded. Hab 2:2-4 says “Then the Lord answered me and said: ‘Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. ‘Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.”

What is your plan? Write in a journal your thoughts about why you are writing the book, the poem, or the novella that God has put in your heart. Reflect back to the day you said to yourself “I’m going to write …” Write down the vision and “keep swimming”.