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One Year to Glory – January 20, 2013

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hi everybody&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I haven&&num;8217&semi;t written here in a few days but I have been writing&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m working on a book&period; I think I&&num;8217&semi;ve mentioned it previously&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve fought a lot of negative thoughts in getting to the point of starting the book&period; One of the biggest was that my story wasn&&num;8217&semi;t compelling enough&period; Who would buy this&quest; Who would pick it up and find it the least bit interesting&comma; compelling&comma; heartwarming&comma; or inspiring&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Silly devil&comma; you had to know I&&num;8217&semi;d figure you out sooner or later&period; Dude&comma; God&&num;8217&semi;s on my side&period; That means you lose every time&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another thing holding me back was just the opposite of thinking my story wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be good enough&period; What&&num;8217&semi;s going to happen if this takes off&quest; What if people really are touched by it&quest; What happens next&quest; Can I handle it&quest; I&&num;8217&semi;ve been successful before&period; My services have been in demand before&period; What happened after success came&quest; Let&&num;8217&semi;s put it this way &&num;8211&semi; you know the saying&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Everyone gets promoted to their level of incompetence&quest;&&num;8221&semi; That was me and I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to go back there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Imagine having both sides of the coin as your internal conflicts&period; Gives new meaning to the phrase&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Damned if you do and damned if you don&&num;8217&semi;t&period;&&num;8221&semi; How can I be afraid it won&&num;8217&semi;t be any good and afraid it&&num;8217&semi;ll be too good all at the same time&quest; The devil again&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s a clever bastard&period; Enough of him&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s only a problem if I let him be one&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So three nights last week&comma; I wrote&period; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t set the world on fire with quantity&comma; and probably not quality either&comma; but I did it&period; Good for me&period; Time not to worry about who will like it&comma; who won&&num;8217&semi;t or what will happen down the road&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s time to write&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>God bless&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;witnesspath&period;com&sol;about" rel&equals;"author">Todd Marsha<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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