My friend is progressing well and I have prayed and prayed. I will continue to pray. But now it is my job to leave it with God. It is time to get back to the issue at hand, writing. Today I am going to work on my MG book. It is about a young boy who experiences the trials and tribulations of growing up in an urban neighborhood. He has dreams to become something great but so many things stand in his way. I thought of following him through his journey year after year until he becomes high school age. I have not finalized that yet. However, I have walked with him through his third grade school year.

In addition, I am going to work on my adult fiction piece which is complete at over 80,000 words. I have been sending out query letters for this one. There was one agent who was very helpful and stated that I needed to add more because there was too much backstory. I did some editing and I think she was right. It sounds even better than before!


Today I hope to be rather productive and get as much writing done as I possibly can. This weekend I will go to the post office and send out some more packages. I won't reach my goal of getting published if I sit idle. I mean, I can do that once my books are flying off the shelves and I am living in my lake house thinking of more ideas to bring to life!