I know we have not been very good about blogging, so I am going to create a new blog series called the “Tuesday Check Ins”. I’m hoping to give a brief update on where we are at in our writing and whatever else I think might be interesting.
This book has come more slowly then either of us had hoped. On the face of it, we expected it to just fall into place. We had the end picture. We had a bunch of pieces. It should have been easy. However, the hardest part has been balancing action and storytelling. Some of the pieces we thought were awesome had to be thrown out. Others did not fit where we thought they would. And still more pieces were dumped in. We’ve drafted, drafted, and drafted again, each one I think was getting stronger than the last. Now we are nearly half-way into our current draft. This morning, a chapter wasn’t working, so we took a step back, plotted things forward, and swapped characters for that chapter. But we didn’t have to go backward. It’s progress!
In light of this week being holy week for those of us in the Christian church, I want to leave off with a graphic of a song from Jyrya. It was one we wrote for their Good Friday service. With all of the darkness in our world, it’s easy to lose sight of the light, and yet Christ is still there, inviting us to come into His presence, if we would just turn to Him.
