Not much time to write today. Honestly, I haven't had a ton of time to write the entire month. School has taken up huge hunk of my time, and seems to have become even more intense now that I'm in high school. Even today, a Sunday, I've got loads of Algebra II homework and must memorize all the phyla in Kingdom Protista for biology. Hmmm...strange that I find my mind constantly drifting to my book when I have such fascinating things planned on my to-do list...
My book, speaking of, is making no current progress, unless an occasional thought or jotted-down idea late at night counts as progress. Hopefully this winter, after school of course, my book will be my primary occupation. Maybe I'll get something good written. The problem, however, lies in the fact that I don't seem to have enough time to work on it and the scene I'm working on now is just a jumbled mess of characters, words and description. But, who knows, perhaps, given time and if I work on it, it'll become the best scene in my book. I'll remain hopeful.
It actually helps me to remind myself, in times like this, when I can't seem to have a single, creative thought, that I remind myself of why I write. I write because I think I have a story to share with others. It's important that, in my writing (though fictional), I demonstrate virtuous characters, moral, just decisions, and things that would exemplify beauty, virtue or teach a lesson to the reader (especially if I want my target audience to be children). Does this mean my book will be published? No. But I really don't mind. I don't want to be famous, or an acclaimed, brilliant writer. I'd like to write a good story, one that a person would think about long after he's read the last page. If can come even close to writing in such a way as did G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien (all three whose writing I enjoy and appreciate reading), then I will be happy.
So, as time marches forward, I have but to keep up with the pace, strive to do God's will, and, if it be part of His will, finish my book.
For it is as St. Teresa of Avila said: “Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains all that it strives for. He who has God finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.”
