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THE PURPOSE WILL FUEL THE PROCESS
“Why?” When I was growing up, this was the number one question my father taught me to ask. “If you don’t know the ‘why’ behind something,” he would say, “then there is no purpose.” I have come to discover he was right. In every arena of life, we must know the “why” behind what is being said or done or else all becomes meaningless, mindless rhetoric and response. Without purpose we have no reason for doing anything, and without a reason we will never have the zeal necessary to persevere and accomplish what we were made to do. And nowhere is this more true than in the field of writing.…
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DON’T QUIT!
On midnight of June 28, 2017 I sent my first ever novel, “Sengali: A Cat’s Tale”, off to the printers. It was a lifelong dream come true that also became a profound lesson in grace and perseverance. Self-publishing can be a very challenging, rewarding, grueling, fascinating, exhausting, exhilarating, frustrating and ultimately triumphant process. On that night of June 28 I had been consumed by it for well over a year and, quite frankly, was utterly spent: mentally, physically, and emotionally. I had just pressed through what I thought was the last of more barriers than I could count when yet another one smacked me down. Only a technical problem…but it…
