I have learned two things from finishing my umpteenth edit of my novel: 1) I could do it. I didn’t believe in my heart that I even wanted to go there again–experience once more what my character experiences and re-live some of those events through her eyes. But I did do it!
2) A peace has overcome me as I finished the last stroke. It’s as if, finally, the story has been told and my work is complete. I feel God has spoken all He can through this novel and it’s ready to be unleashed on the world.
Now, getting someone else to believe the same thing is the task at hand.
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin
“Let everything you do be something beautiful for God.” Mother Teresa