Book Writing: Day Nine

It is my intention, with this series of ‘Book Writing’ posts, to give readers a view into the torturous, lovely, confusing and exhilarating experience of book writing - as I experience it as a first time author.

I’m Back! Sorry for the delay with these posts — I have been trying to stay hard at work. This is actually April 15.

• Rode the ferry in with Matthew last night. There was a slight hiccup getting home (shhh: Matthew left the lights on on the car so his dad had the rescue us…)

• Accompanied Matt to dinner at L’abri last (Sunday) night.

• Had a great talk with Mark (one of the L’abri staff) about writing and faith. He lent me “Finding God at Harvard” which is an example of crossing the secular/faith line through telling people’s individual stories. We also talked about Edith Schaeffer’s vision of a TAPESTRY. We see on one side: the knots and strings and mess and dead-ends and mistakes. But God sees the other side: the beautiful tapestry that He is weaving. The big or small messes on one side look very different to Him, in fact they may very well be the masterpieces. “The Tapestry” is the title of a book Edith wrote about the life and times of her and her husband Francis - co-founders of L’abri.

• Read my Nouwen calendar this morning – soo good. Journaled about the permanency of God’s love.
• Spent the morning e-mailing people
• Got a couple of encouraging e-mails/messages from some of the women in my life – Amani and Steph. I printed them off and put them in my journal to go back and read them again for encouragement on this project.
• Went for a long walk/hike (8 km) around the lake. Marisa called me on my cell half-way through my hike - it was such a treat to catch up with her.
• Got home and wrote a long ‘to-do’ list which will have to wait until tomorrow
• Picked up a movie (The Darjeeling Limited) and pint of Ben and Jerry’s with Matthew in the cove
• Good night