I'll be brief and quick with this because I'm on a mission.
See I'm just under 10,000 words to finishing the first draft of Lady Agape and The New Dimension and I want to knock that out as quick as my creativity will allow. I've sat with this manuscript for a couple of months now, writing almost every day for four to six hours a day. So, I have a good feel for what I'm trying to say about this young college professor named Agape D'Vine who enters her inner domain on the astral dimension in order to rescue her inner child; break a time loop that is prolonging the death of a planet within her; and face off with a fraction of the archetypal energy of transformation. I know that I'm still close to this story but it's about time to start Lady Agape and The Divine Find. Isn't it? While I'm finishing The New Dimension, shouldn't I be making plans for The Divine Find. No? I mean I could try to pants it but I did a combination of outlining and pantsing with The New Dimension. I know where The Divine Find begins and ends so I only have to channel the middle. It did take months to outline The New Dimension and knowing this I still want as small amount of time as possible to pass before tackling its theme and second draft. Things were easier when I just had one project to focus on and others just to think about. Now my time is being stretched like never before and I'm finding myself with less time in the day to waste. That's the price you pay when you go the self-publishing route. It's a business and I have to be on the grind. Stories, sound stories, are important but so is the business aspect of it. The planning, the execution, and the harvesting of something that came from the divine to me then to the readers. Now I see, thanks for the advice. I see that I need to speed a little time organizing before this thing get ahead of me. Before it become a burden and I lose the joy of creation and sharing. So no, it's not too early. I just need to reschedule my day, shake off the burden, and go with the joy and flow of being my own boss with my own deadlines. I'm not a slacker and I want to share my form of worship to the ineffable with the whole world. That's worth taking my time to figure it out. Besides I'm in the Hanged Man position right now- best to make the most of it. -Thanks for Listening Sabrina-Louise Andielle
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Tobymac says "It might flicker but they can't kill the flame."
Well, that's where I'm at in this process of birthing a novel which I plan to publish. I've etched in stone chapters 1-18 which leaves me with 4 chapters to discover & write. I now see the end of the tunnel and the promise land of a completed first draft. Of course the more I write the more I understand this project and how it is the glorification of the creation and the creator. Our Creator! Our Creation! I have decided to talk about the wonder of the work of The Great Mind (God) and how we're supposed to live in Its illusion. To be honest there is so much I want to talk about but sometimes I come off as cold and detached. I lack a sweet tongue and I've come to accept that. Yet, what I lack in tack I make up for by expressing myself in engrossing and entertaining stories. It is my gift as an elder soul. Me and God got history and I trust God and myself more than I trust this illusion. This is what I want to share with people- my relationship. I want to help people navigate the mazes of life; the metaphysical. It took me a while to understand what category that I'm to put my writings in; now I see that it is Metaphysical Fiction. This means I am expected to give my theories/philosophies on metaphysical topics and if you haven't heard, with Lady Agape & The New Dimension I'm currently writing about the archetypal energy of transformation and the work that we do in the astral dimension. This is a genre, metaphysical fiction, that's only been around for close to two decades so I can also help contribute to the development of one of our new forms of healing communication. I have high hopes about this outlet for it please my soul and the mind of God. I get to talk all I want about the power of God and not have people become over burden by my words/energy. This is not the hero's journey, it's something greater. A journey that will force you to crawl if you can't walk not because the whip is at the back but because the hand is at the heart. That means that anybody can travel with me or any other writer/guide of meta fiction then apply what we share to one's life. With this journey the entire passage is about God, with God , and for God. There is a little room in there for the individual but that's only because we are all fragments of the same Queen/King in this matrix. But, I can talk about the details and philosophy in a project that is novel or novella size. Here's looking at you, my dear reader. Once again, thanks for listening! Sabrina-Louise Andielle I strongly believe that if there is one then there are two; if there are two then there are many. This also include writers and their field. The fact that there are niches is the exception to the rule as most of the time the collective consciousness of imagination delivers its message to multiple people at the same time. This distribution of ideas to writers is so expected that when approaching a publisher or attempting to independently sell your work, there is usually a category request. "What's your genre of writing?" Is the question anyone that's involved with books ask. Or, "What books are similar to yours?" is another good question of the industry .
The other thing I strongly believe is the Universe is always trying to prove us right. It give us what we expect. So according to my first belief it was only a matter of time before I started to find others who wrote the type of fiction that I did. The problem was I didn't know what I wrote because I wasn't writing for me. Oh, I would try to deliver but my soul wasn't happy. One day I said to myself, "You like talking about the mysteries of life, the philosophy of the details of all that is, from the God Being, to the Human Beings, to the Universe Being, to the spiritual Beings, so why not talk about all that." Without hesitation, that's what I did. After a while I asked my Angels, "What is this that I'm writing because saying its Christian Fiction is not entirely true and is a little misleading. Besides," I said. "I'm not attracting likeness." This curiosity led me to know that I write Metaphysical/Visionary Fiction. I get to talk about what I love and not have to witness others rolling their eyes in exasperation. I am now writing for me and I love it. I love it to the point that I am beating previous accomplishments and see light at the end of the tunnel. At the writing of this post, I am at the end of the middle of my first draft of Lady Agape & The New Dimension. A feat that I never knew I could accomplish again. As a matter of fact I'm hoping that I didn't put too much in the middle. Just this afternoon I told my son that I was looking forward to the Re-Vision part of this process. With my dedicating myself to talking about what I love, I have found books like mines or the books that I'm trying to be similar to. Of course there is the The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy but there are great reads such as The Mists of Avalon and Jonathen Livingston Seagull. Not only do I now know what books I working to be in company with but I found a writer's group that specialize in this type of writing. Amazing God, amazing Universe, amazing us. So, now that I have a new map and no longer wandering about following passion and instincts I can keep going with purpose and companionship. Not that I will completely abandon my passion because as I said, I love this stuff and this stuff feeds me. My spirit is once again content. Now I just have 8 chapters left in my first draft or about 31,000 words. Then, I can really roll up my sleeves and not only re-write this 93,000 word project but have a group to talk about it with. Now who's blessed? This girl, that's who. Again, amazing God -Thanks for Listening Sabrina-Louise Holloway "Andielle" One of the things that I'm learning this project that has never come to me before, you will know when the process of writing stories begins to make sense. I'm not denying that there is one story in everybody but the act of producing story after story takes a soul that has captured a wide variety of experiences. I used to wonder why ask writers their opinion on issues regarding life and/or current events. I now know that the profession of writer, especially original storytelling-writers, has become one of the new outlets for spiritual elders and leaders. Amazing I know; but it makes sense.
Especially elders who give of themselves and receive little in immediate return. Most true elders don't live long enough to see their influence on society. You have the exceptions to the rules, the superstar writers, but most with substance don't get to say "look at me. Look at me, I have something shiny and new." I got a feeling that I will fall in the latter crowd. I write spiritual fiction, meaning that I write about spiritual living within the human experience. I say it's like this: I write spiritual how-to in an entertaining way. I'm helping to present the new Hero's Journey. One of the voices creating new myths. Considering my history, this is making sense to me now. Lady Agape is me and every person that's gone within in order to change without. I know that there is more than a story about reviewing life because this writing stuff is making sense to me, finally. I know that this post is short but I just wanted to share my discovery and pronounce that my heart is at ease now that this all makes sense. Let the flood gates open and the stories loose. -Thanks for Listening Sabrina-Louise |
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