Down the Rabbit Hole

 Happy Wednesday!  How has your October gone? For the first time all year, I'm not surprised that October is coming to an end. It didn't feel like it went too fast or too slow. It was just what I needed and I'm thankful to God for giving me that. Maybe not what I had planned or wanted a month or two ago, but definitely what I needed. God is so good in that. Always giving us what we need even when we don't know what we need. Anyway, I'm just very thankful for this month and all the good things God has given me.  October Writing:  I finally buckled down and finished writing the sequel to The Immortal Circus! My goal at the beginning of the month was to finish it before November and I did that with a few days to spare! As most first drafts do, it needs a lot of work, but I'm really happy with how it turned out and am excited that I finally finished it. That draft took longer than any other draft I've written in a looong time.  I also finalized edits and formatt

Happy Wednesday! So, I stumbled across this tag/challenge on Instagram through a post @christinesmithauthor was tagged in. I read through her post about it and then through her blog post on it and thought it was such a fun idea!  To preface, a friend of mine and I have decided not to participate in Nanowrimo this year because of their political stances on certain things over the past year. I just don't feel right promoting them or supporting them in anyway. However, I still will be writing 50k in November. We're coming up with a fun challenge (still brainstorming names and ironing out the details. I'll do a post on it once we figure things out).  But I thought this tag would be a fun way to share about my WIP for this year. I'm on the fence about which WIP I'm going to work on, so I've decided I'm going to do two of these for this month's tag. One for each and then in November I'll narrow it down to just one.  This one is for the sequel to a book I w

Happy Wednesday! I know it's been a minute since I've posted anything on here other than monthly wrap ups. The inspiration and motivation to write has been coming in in trickles instead of waves. But I wrote this for my newsletter and wanted to share.   I was reading in Psalm 103 this morning, using a commentary from Charles Spurgeon. Psalm 103:1-2 says: "Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits." In his commentary on the second verse he was talking about how the memory has a way of elevating the negative and squashing the positive. Our minds have a way of focusing on the bad instead of on the good, and how to focus on the good and to remember the good God has done in our lives is worshipful to Him. I'm already aware that I can be a pretty negative or pessimistic person. I try not to be, I try to focus on the good, but it takes more effort than maybe it does for other people who