Okay. So in relation to writing, I'm tired of learning. I know. I know. Some of your jaws just dropped. And some of you smirk thinking, "Well no wonder she doesn't sell many books." Hey, it's true. But after a point and seven plus novels which aren't in and of themselves good reasons to abandon "learning" about how to write good fiction, I'm tired of the same instructions said in different ways, the rules and their adaptations depending on who's giving them, and the overall "keys" to making a story pop.
While learning the basics is valuable and necessary, again, after a point, it becomes tedious and routine to hear "nothing new under the sun". In the end, although some would vehemently disagree, it's all subjective, a matter of opinion. Sometimes success is marketing induced. Sometimes it results from superb writing – which is also subjective. And sometimes it's because a story takes off because it's unique. For all the successful publishers, there are many folding their tents and moving on. For all the massive amounts of novels produced, according to statistics, many more are deemed unsuccessful than successful.
Call me stubborn – it's a fact – but I'm tired of listening to the clichéd instructions and, in some cases, demands of professionals and those that rather self-righteously proclaim how to write a good story. After awhile, all you're learning is how to separate opinions.
Father, you're the One from whom I need to learn. Apart from you, I can do nothing. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
Into the Fire 
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