I spent some time editing the first chapter of a new project, preparing myself to move onto the second chapter only to discover something about True Grace. A few of you, okay, anyone who knows me, ask me on a consistent basis how my writing is coming along. The answer is generally the same - a shamed remark with intentionally positive undertones with nothing to really show for myself. I am excited. It's coming along, yada yada.

The truth is, I am creating a product. Like anyone creating a product, I must go through the a specific process, only I am new to this creative product business and follow a blind path. With as much intelligent and even wise information that my predecessors and incredible authors before me can lend or beat into me, I just haven't gotten it right away. It is soaking in though.

Just yesterday I had a revelation. The first draft of the novel is written, I am working on the second draft or the first revision. Easy information for all of you, but to me it revelatory. I kept insisting that I was still writing the first draft, slowly laboring and getting a little discouraged. But indeed I passed that stage, a sign of progress, into another stage. It was exciting, a bit of success for my heart. True Grace has been in works for four years - four exciting, growing, developing and life altering years, not simply for the books, but for me. I had to go through the change because I have an intense desire to bring accuracy and real huan nature, the human condition, to my characters.

If you think it's hard to be interested in all I have said about the books I am writing and not get to read anything I am working on, believe me it is harder for me to not be ready to share anything. I am close. This month I will find out on a submission from November. As soon as I find out, I will post the news, good or bad (no bad news though, only experience). I can't wait to share the short story I submitted, but I legally need to wait until submission results come in.

I can't share what is from the novels just yet, the content is still developing and I risk writing something that won't even be in the books. Just for fun, I may share a portion of the submission from class, but it may or may not make it into the book, though it is definitely the characters from True Grace.

Thanks for your support my friends, it is encouraging!