I’m gonna get this first edit finished by the end of the week, if it’s the last thing I do! Do you hear me, book, there’s a new sheriff in town!

Please forgive me if I don’t chat as much as normal this week. I’m going to put my best efforts towards completing this first edit of my memoirs. I’m feeling excitement, exhaustion, and quite a bit of emotions, all rolled into one purpose… get it done!

Hopefully, once I’ve completed this run through, I will make an audio version of everything in its entirety. From there, all that’s left to do is let it breath for a bit, listen to my own audio cut, and tuck in any bits hanging loose. I feel somewhat embarrassed to have taken so long in the completion of this task, but even now, the content is powerful enough to draw up great emotions. I find the need to work for a time, followed by a break, and then rinse and repeat.

I need to wrap this up though, as I feel God lighting a fire under me to get back to my other project, which is also nearly 2/3 of the way there. Perhaps I have used up more time than I should have, hemming and hawing about having to actually say that I’m finally done. In the end, I know that it will have been worth all the effort, if for no other reason than to please my God!

As I work towards finishing this first full work, it’s as if I can feel water sloshing over the edge of the literary dam that I’ve kept held back. While I’ve been distracted with cleaning up the beginnings of my literary river, the waters have been backing up. I can feel the splash of watery words dropping down upon my head, trying to escape the barrier that prevents them from landing on a page. They are all crying out to be written and shared, tired of waiting for me to release them. Like water that needs to flow, in order to produce energy and life, so to do these words seek to flow from my mind, and onto the page. It’s Time!