The writing journey
Following the shower experience with God and the naming of the book, the entrepreneur in me wanted so badly to get back up and start working again. But God had a different journey in mind for me still. He had now taken me through a journey of truth and reconciliation with my holy irritation and He had even began to rebuild my identity, purpose, leadership and calling through the P.I.N.K. Framework process He established in me. But I still needed to be healed from many of the things I had been through. Regardless, I wrote that first draft anyway! And when I handed it off to my friends, the ones who weren’t afraid to speak truth into my life, they handed it back and said, “it’s not time yet”. That same Spirit of rejection came over me again and I’m not going to lie, I quickly wanted to sink back into the place of isolation. But day after day over the next year, God met me in dreams, visions and prayers and He rewired my thinking until my faith was restored and I could see clearly again. And then He said, “it’s time to write. And once that happened, I was able to get connected to the right people and resources to bring the book to fruition.
The writing process for me began with my attempt to get everything on paper that I thought God wanted me to write. My writing coach calls them all of the puzzle pieces. The first draft was comprised of all of the puzzle pieces and it wasn’t brilliant! Nor did it hit the target that I wanted to hit. But after the editor finished the first draft, I was able to refine and reconfigure the puzzle pieces into a more pointed manuscript that got me closer to what I wanted to say and was definitely more targeted. Then the real test, sending it to my friends again! This time, the responses were different and I knew I was on the right track. One friend wrote, “I started reading the book this morning. I’m on page 47 and I think I’ve highlighted 40 of the pages! Lol it is so good and if I didn’t have to get ready for this interview, I would probably just keeping reading it to the the end, and then read it a second time!”. I’m so grateful I waited for God’s timing. I can’t wait to see how He finishes this out.