I think that one day I will sit down and write a book. It's my dream. It was my dream before I had the dream to be a counselor or a mother or a wife or any other role that I might undertake. I used to hand write pages and pages of stories, curled up on my bed. Anytime I mention this to Dave he rolls his eyes. He's tired of waiting for me to stop talking about writing and start writing. It's just that so many other things take my time.
It isn't actually time that is the issue. We make time for whatever is important to us.
You're supposed to write what you know. I'm familiar with plenty of topics, but one of the things I've lived and breathed my entire life is Christianity. I've seen so many versions of it and so many people who are convinced that they are right. I'm convinced that I am right, but since I am part of this tolerant generation, I will say that I'm convinced that I'm right for myself. And with that statement I've offended an entire wing of Christians.
Anyway, if I do write anytime soon, I will write about my experience as a Christian. I will write about how so much of my Christianity has been about following rules but that the deepest parts are more real to me than my own skin. I will write that some of the charismatic things I experienced as a child were sheer drama, but some was passionate and beautiful. I will write about the jewels of truth I have gained from watching others' lives unfold. I will write about things that a personal, like the map of my life. Maybe I'll write under a pseudonym.
This is all banter. Thoughts. I don't have much more to add at this point.
4 comments:
do it. write. you know i love reading whatever you write!
Get crack-a-lackin lady! You are destined.
Jen, frankly I'm surprised you're not already published. You're an amazing writer - remember that story you wrote when we were kids, about the woman at the well? I do. It's been what, 15 years or more and I still remember thinking how great it was! :) And your poetry was beautiful. Seriously - what's holding you back?
i know that you will write that book, jen. it's inside of you already; you just have to put it into words.
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