Robert Priest's Blog: Blogging not logging - Posts Tagged "faith"

I've done a good solid assembly of chapter 1 of missing piece. I'm leaving it a little loose because first chapters so often wind up having to be changed to accommodate certain details that come later unexpectedly. And now I'm about halfway through the same process for chapter 2. The worst part of all this I think is probably the part before the writing begins. the elastic of potential procrastination. One flops about in an open-ended limbo a little bit like a worm caught on the hook of the necessity of writing—given the time frame involved when the book is due. Squirm squirm. No offense actual worms on books. I don't want to trivialize your agony.

I am a secular person but there's a certain amount of very local faith involved in writing this novel. Faith that I can get through all of the challenges that arise and constantly seem poised to completely undo all the work that's been done so far. I like that faith. It's not extreme. It's reasonable. So in that sense you could say I'm a writer of faith.

Of course it's all afloat in great doubtfulness. Chiefly doubting that on any particular day the act of writing will actually begin. Whether one will face the enormous amount of work that has to be done and the fact that one can only do a little bit of it at a time Sheesh. Imagine how poor Homer must've felt.

And so, standing up
blogging not logging, leaving no stumps, no ruined environments, having procrastinated indefinitely on the whole ending of the world project, not to mention getting down to work on my novel, i bid thee adieu