Lena Jones

My husband reminded me how long it's been since I have graced the blog-o-sphere with my presence, so here I am.

I have been thinking a lot about why I am writing a novel. If anyone has tried you know it isn't easy, unless your Danielle Steele or John Grisham. Yet no matter how hard it is I keep going back to it. Trying to make it sound just right. Writing about people who I want a reader to care about. Do I enjoy my rear end getting sore from sitting for so long? Do I enjoy having people read it and tell me my grammar needs some help? Do I enjoy others saying, "Oh you're still working on that." (like I should have been done months ago.)
I don't enjoy any of those things, yet I continue to sit for hours and poke out sentence after sentence until midnight. WHY!!
To quote someone quite famous because "I have a dream." My dream may not be as world changing as Dr. King's but God gave me the dream. He put it in my heart, He is the one who wouldn't let the idea leave my mind.
God has placed in everyone a passion. I think we can have more than one. I am passionate about my husband and kids, my relationship with God. Now after realizing this crazy idea to write a novel is from God, I am passionate about it.
It may take a long time to see something published but that doesn't matter. I can be happy just knowing I am chasing the dream.