Novel Writing...

is hard to do-o. (sing in the Grease fashion of Hopelessly Devoted).  So I'm sure that many are aware of this, but some may not be, I wrote a novel called "All is Fair". A true story of my experiences dating someone that was in Operation Iraqi Freedom.  It's a story of love, loss, and the aftermath of war and PTSD. Editors, agents, and publishers do not like this novel. Most of the regret letters that I receive are generic, "we don't want you" kind of letters...but I do get some back, especially from agents that say, we would work with this book, IF you "insert change here".  I refuse to do this.  I've come to find out that's because the story is so close to my heart. EVERYTHING is true in this story, nothing but some sly changes of names have occurred...for instance my ex-fiance's last name is Fisher, and in the story his last name is Basser...get it....fish...bass...anyway...I decided to start writing a new novel, this time Fiction, which is surprisingly MUCH easier to write. 

I'm super excited about this endeavor.  I've decided that after I get this book done (I'm shooting for next year), I would make it an E-Story and put a chapter a day on this blog (or maybe create another blog especially for that story.  So far I just have my getcha line to interest publishers (which may change since it still is in draft mode). This story is influenced by my experiences in life, but does not describe in any way my feelings. I created this story from my love of the idea of God's Tapestry, which I heard from somebody, somewhere.  God's Tapestry is the idea that God is the weaver of our lives.  Our lives being the beautiful tapestry.  We only see the back of this loom that looks like a big knotted mess with different color rows that seem to be making no sense.  But God sees the front side as he works, it's all coming together for Him, and he ultimately knows what the final picture of our lives will be. If we start trying to correct things or try to make sense of things from our side, we will mess up the big picture.  We should only trust God and his decision for our lives (Tapestry), no matter how bad we think he's screwing things up in hopes that the bigger picture makes sense and is the best life for us.

So my story is about a fraught wife, and mother of 3 who despises the hand she was dealt in life, and gets the chance to see how things would have been had certain events never happened.

Crossing my fingers that this is more "readable" than my last book attempt.