Absence of passion, we still write. There are those days when you just don’t feel like writing, today is one of those days for me. I did not finish what I was writing yesterday and I want to write about people trusting famous people to tell them how to think. It is Saturday and I have Saturday things to do, writing has become the distraction (see Day-2 comments). Because of the desire to do other things my passion for writing is not present.
These are the days in which outlines can help. I write, and speak best, when I free flow, meaning I type based on what is in my heart but, on days like this I need to at least write my point, main idea. If I write my main idea and then add a few supporting sentences I can do some writing.
Habakkuk 2:2 (KJV)
2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Write the main idea, the vision, and then add the supporting statements, making it plain, this way what is written will make sense. On Day five of National Novel Writing Month there is a pattern developing, my vision is becoming clearer to me. Remember, I had not planned on participating in NaNoWriMo. Each day I have been journaling what it is to be a writer then I write essay’s; my plan is to post the journal and the essay’s as blog post perhaps I will combine the entries and form a book. I have to be able to run when I read as I write otherwise the vision is blurred.

It takes me longer to write using an outline and I think I make more mistakes. I attribute this to my faith. Whatever I am writing even fiction, which is parabolic in nature, is based on my biblical understanding therefore, I listen to the Holy Spirit.

Habakkuk 2:3
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

And this is where it gets unique; many Christian writers do not credit the Holy Spirit for the words they put on paper and some that do will not admit it. If I write what I want to write the words don’t make sense, the reader will be wondering: What is she writing about? But when I am prayerful, when I pray and meditate on the Word of God, inspiration comes. My main idea is inspired by Scripture, my understanding of Scripture is from the Spirit of God thus I trust God to not only inspire my words but establish when they are released. It is what I do.
It took longer to write the above words because the thoughts were there but the motivation was not. In between quoting Habakkuk 2:2 and writing the words “Write the main idea,”: I cooked breakfast, cleaned the kitchen, watched YouTube and had a cup of coffee and a slice of pie. Over four hours to write 500 words that is what happens when there is an absence of passion.

I am an active participant of National Novel Writing Month- these entries are unedited on purpose- Marsha L Floyd