Creative, but Clueless

Ok, let’s be honest here. You can’t have it all. Some people know how to market and strategize. Some of us are gifted at eating M&M’s, researching the Civil War, and writing out stories.

Honestly, I have no idea what to do next. I’m taking each small step with faith, hoping and praying that God will direct me to the next step and provide what I need when I get there.

The first step was getting the story line, and then actually writing the novel. That was the fun part. Next, I need to revise and edit. After that comes the most important part: actually finding a way to share it with a group of people commonly known as “readers.”

I’m researching self-publishing and eye-balling the bank account as I pray for wisdom. But that’s not really the biggest challenge. Nope, that would be the marketing part. Letting the world know I have a novel on my hands and they would like to read it.

I can’t explain it, but I feel compelled to share this novel (and others) with the world. It no longer feels like a choice. To stop writing or to stop pursuing publication would feel like disobedience.

Here’s a quote by Pearl Buck that sums me up remarkably well (I’ll abbreviate it for those with short attention spans):

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive... Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create— so that without the creating of… books… his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation.
By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”

When I’m not writing, I feel like I’m just marking time.

What are you passionate about?