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Last Thursday, though it might possibly have been Wednesday but I’m pretty sure it was Thursday, I resumed writing on a story that I had started on August 28, 2006. It was a trilogy of three stories and I had fairly good plots and the main characters figured out in my notes on it. I decided to make it into a three part book though, if I wanted to, I could some day greatly expand the stories and make them into three separate books in their own rights and make a real trilogy out of them. However, for the moment I’m just going to leave them together into one nice little book. The book however is not so little. I completed the rough draft today and it spans seventy-five pages with the minimum length for a book in my measuring system. And that is exciting!!! On Monday I wrote TWENTY pages in one day and that was probably more than I’d ever written before. Indeed, I’ve finished the whole rough draft in less than a week so It’s been a pretty massive writing undertaking for me. And I’m glad I was able to finish the rough draft. now all I have to do is edit it, which could take a while. However, right now I’m really looking forward to reading it as I’ve only read part one and I’m quite curious to find out what actually the book is about and what happens and how the characters behave and whether it’s funny or not because when you are writing massive amounts of story each day you often forget what it was you wrote the previous day.

So, I’m off. but I did want to post of my accomplishment to the world:) And I certainly do thank Jesus very much for giving me a talent when it comes to writing. In the Bible it says in the book of James that “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and commeth down from the father of lights with whome is no variableness neither shadow of turning.”

So really, my writing isn’t “my” writing and this story is not “my” accomplishment. However, since it’s not exactly the greatest story in the world it just might be “my” story. I’ve felt for a long time I won’t really ever write anything worth anything until I write for the glory of God and not for my own glory. Until it’s a gift to him first and glorifies him it probably won’t be anything… Which means… Well… I need to work on my relationship with him because currently I’m merely writing for myself. So… Well… I think I’m tired right now and feeling ill so I’m going to crawl into bed with my book and read it:)