Let's get this straight.
When you read all of those books about twelve-year-olds that save the world, it's a total and complete lie. I'm nearly an adult, and I can't even find the time to put as much work into a website as I want to. Real life is more like Black Beauty or Huck Finn or A House of Tailors. I am under no impression that what I'm doing is world-changing, or will ever matter to anyone. But for the first time in my life, I feel like I have a responsibility that needs to be completed. It's stupid, stupid, stupid, but I must get there. I must follow this through to the end, and work more than I probably should. Long nights. Library trips. Gosh-awful humility-checking email marathons. Being honest about sincerity. Not sounding like a clingy puppy dog. Facing facts. Standing on my beliefs, and not backing down because someone has their genre in a wad. Doing chores. Remembering to graduate homeschool. Intermittent novel drafting. Endless recently published novel lists on yucky publisher websites.
And remembering to stay tight with God.
"When you get hooked into something by God, you'll have all the energy you'll need to do it."
I just wanted to show people that there are interesting things in life that have nothing to do with vampires. But now it's more than that. It's about really nice people and sharing some pretty incredible words.
Toughing it out. This is nothing.
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