The idea of writing a novel crossed my mind many times. However, each time I began thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that I couldn’t do it. First, the number of words in a novel stopped me:100,000 plus words remained out of my aim. And the notion of working for a year or two, or more kept me from believing it to be a good goal. I felt I just didn’t have it in me to go for it.
I even started a few novels and later turned them into novelettes and novellas. As the word count of my fiction pieces shortened, I still didn’t have faith that I would tell made-up stories. At the end of my procrastination regarding my nonexistent fiction efforts, I had changed the type and length of the stories. Short stories were then on my radar.
But after deciding on short fiction, I didn’t begin my journey into fiction writing.
Now, I have begun to believe I can write a novel.
I got fired up due to what Abraham did in the Bible. He believed what God had told him about his becoming a father at the age of 100. Even though his wife was beyond childbearing age and he was an old man, he believed. Romans Chapter 4, verse 17, reads: as the scripture says, ‘I have made you father of many nations.” So, the promise is good in the sight of God, in whom Abraham believed–the God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist.
Abraham had faith and became the father of many nations.
Although my situation with achieving the power to write a novel is different than what Abraham faced, I gather motivation from the Bible’s words. If this 100-year-old man could and did believe even in his position, I can believe what the Bible tells me.
Thank you for reading,
Lisa
Bethlehem Blessing 