Swirling | CWBC

This is part of the ChristianWriters Blog Chain for March. The subject, swirling. As it pertains to our life, our writing, or however our brain interprets it. Follow the links at the end of this article for other authors’ take on the word.

Writing swirls the same as life.

Ebbs and advances according to our challenges of the day or week.

For me, one  affects the other on a week in and week out basis. That is, if life is swirling busily around me, my writing suffers (as does my motivation). If my writing swirls out of control or propels me along the storyline with reckless abandon, I seem to be more content than not. Interesting how that happens, eh?

This past month my editing of Searching for Sara has trotted along at a wonderful pace, not too drastic and not too tiresome. Of course, it helped that I received a ‘Certificate of Merit’ from Deep River Books at month’s beginning. Something of an encouragement for this author (who sometimes feels she limps along behind everyone else). The key is to continue forward, no matter where you are in the writing timeline. If you don’t plod forward, how can you ever finish? Yes, of course sometimes finishing means that 3 or 4 other novels have swirled out of the mists of inspiration, but is that a bad thing?

No!

I can’t imagine what my life would be like without my characters swirling in and out of my imagination. They have helped me define who I am as a writer as well as a person. God used my characters to show me the cause and effect of life’s choices. Yes, sometimes I made those bad decisions regardless of what I knew the repercussion would be, but that simply swirled in added color into my own character (and perhaps even into my testimony to others). Either way, the stories that swirl around in my head every morning and every evening are a facet of myself that I would hate to lose.

I think God knows that, which is why He always finds time to swirl added color into the tapestry of my books… especially when I seek out His inspiration. How do you get God involved in your life?

Other Bloggers in the CW March Blog-Chain:

• 3/1: Cindee Snider Re, Breathe Deeply
• 3/2: Sheila Hollinghead, Clearing Skies
• 3/4: Tracy Krauss, Expression Express
• 3/6: Chris Henderson, TheWriteChris
• 3/7: Traci Bonney, Tracings
• 3/9: Chris Perdue, The Bible Stop
• 3/10: Keith Wallis, wordsculptures
• 3/12: Adam Collings, The Collings Zone
• 3/13: Suzanne Hartman, Write at Home
• 3/14: Liberty Speidel, Word Wanderings
• 3/15: Ruth Rockafield, Power of the Pen
• 3/16: Victor Travison, Lightwalker’s View
• 3/17: Debra Ann Elliott, Writing with Debra
• 3/18: Sarah Grace, Write-Minded
• 3/19: Scott Fields, Dead Man Writing
• 3/20: E.G. Lewis, Sowing the Seeds
• 3/21: Linda Yezak, 777 Peppermint Place
• 3/22: Lynn Mosher, Heading Home
• 3/23: Nona King, Word Obsession
• 3/24: Carrie Parker, Rivers of Water
• 3/25: Chris Depew, The Beulah Land Blog
• 3/28: Marti Smith, Telling Secrets