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"A SEASON FOR WRITING"
By April Boyer

Is writing still right for you? Certainly, every one of us has asked that question.

Recently, I read words that caused me pause. Words that were meant as encouragement and motivation, strong words that bit to the core. Is there a time to re-evaluate? If God works in His own season, can the season for writing pass?

Here are some tips to identify where you are at as a writer. Yet, remember that God has a plan for you, and that plan may not fit into our own ideas of success or into our own time table.

If one looks at commitment to God to be obedient, one might look at one definition: "binder". We have become bound to God through our salvation, given of Jesus Christ. We are bound to Jesus like a sister or brother as part of His family and His inheritance. Though we are no longer 'bondsmen' in the sense that we must pay for our salvation through actions or laws to be kept. Yet, we are tied to God because of our trust in Him, our willingness to obey Him and our desire to please Him.

1. Successful writers can set and stick to a schedule.
2. Successful writers don't require interaction and enjoy working independently.
3. Successful writers handle the business endof writing and publishing.
4. Successful writers are professional
5. Successful writers don't procrastinate.
Copied from Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen's "7 Personality Traits of a Successful Writer"
http://theadventurouswriter.com She is author of five "Quips and Tips" blogs, and is writing a series of "Quips and Tips" eBooks.
She also wrote "Four Signs that You Need to Re-Evaluate Your Writing Goals"
that includes these points:
(1) lack of forward momentum,
(2) boredom or lack of motivation,
(3) low return on investment of your time and energy
(4) negative or no feedback. Descriptions of each symptom were given in the article.

She also warned to watch for : 1) losing your joy for writing, 2) losing your creativity 3) talking about it more than doing it, 4)resentment of time and energy, and 5) lack of self- discipline.
Her suggestions are valid and the books are excellent motivation.

Yet many authors admitted to succumbing to most of these traps , and fell short of this list for success. With God's grace, they succeed still.

Commitment: "Assurance" . Can we give God our assurance that we will complete the work He has given us?

There are many interferences in life, and some are not interferences at all but God's plan. We are, after all, servants of God, mothers, dads, parents, employees and employers. We may wear many hats, and they may all be ordained by God. At the very least, God allows for mistakes we make in life. Our decisions may be off the track God has set for us, and so we are derailed.

Some of the interferences in life call for our full attention, or at least a large portion of it. For a season, illness takes precedence. For a season, a child needs you. For a season, God calls you to another ministry, one in which you feed someone who is hungry, who needs clean water, or medical help . For a season, you may fall victim to serious misfortune. For a season, God calls you to give needed care to your parent.

Commitment: "Dedication".
Are we dedicated to our craft, working for God's purpose above all others?

God never promised that as writers we would always write. He didn't promise that we would always publish our works for the world to see, or that we would ever publish works for more than a few to see. He never promised fame and fortune, or that we would always be successful. What He has promised you in your life is a personal promise that He will fulfill. He promised that He would complete a good work begun in you, until the day of His return. How he will make that happen, is yet to be determined.

Max Lucado wrote in a powerful message: "The Write Stuff" how Paul did not set out to be a writer. He accepted the role of "Kingdom Scribe" as God given. Paul wrote to the churches, and he wrote to individuals. He could sound like a poet of honey-filled words, but at other times he merely sounded frustrated; sentence beginnings without ends, "lumps of ideas" instead of lyrics. Max continues the example by telling of the church sister who thanked him for his words on prayer. When another brother passed out copies at his company, he smiled. When his daughter in India, saw his books in store windows, he glowed. Writers enjoy hearing that their work is successful in this world. But there's more. Max speaks of the exhausted single mother who needs just a word or a phrase, or the businessman who stops in his pursuit of numbers to read a blog, and of the teenager who has been led by images of vampires and fantasy who now wants truth. Max reminds us that we are writing for the soul.

His story is motivational. Yet, all that we do, we do for Christ Jesus; if we love Him. A ll that we do is for the soul - one soul, or two, or many. "Write Stuff"

Maybe we aren't writing for only a season, or perhaps God has another plan for us. If we are not writing, think about the reasons why. Don't beat yourself up thinking you should be accomplishing more. What is God doing in your life now? Is He touching someone through your life, through your service, through your attitude ? Are you willing to be what, and where he wants you to be?

Does it seem that your time for this writing season is ending? Ecc 3:1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"

Does it seem that you will never complete what you have set out to do? Phl 1:6 "BE confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ"

Are you doing what you are doing for the soul- one soul, two, or for many? 1Cr 10:31 "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."

Run the race, do your best, strive for the prize. God will take care of the TIMING.

April Boyer © May 2010

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