My Story is Fiction. His is Real.
- Emily Weaver
- May 11, 2018
- 2 min read
When I said I was taking time off from journalism to write a book, most of my friends asked if it would be a true crime book.
It makes sense. My friends are very smart. And I have days when I wonder if writing true crime would have been easier.
I covered crime, court and public safety beats for many years as a journalist. There are plenty of stories I could tell and, God willing, I’ll get around to them, but this one begged to be first. There are crimes in the story I’m writing now - heinous ones. There’s a court, of some sort, and public safety is definitely at risk, but this story is different.
It’s like Noah surviving the flood and choosing to write about architecture, different.
He didn’t… or at least I don’t think he did, but I can only imagine that if he had, it would probably be because he really loved architecture and he wanted the new world to remember the buildings that washed away.
Well, I really love God (Noah did, too) and if the mind of man ever becomes so atrophied with the spoils of time that he loses sight of his Creator then I wanted to write something that will remind him God’s still here. He never left. He never stopped loving us.
I see that over and over again as I read the Bible and I pray that the novel I’m writing will show that, too.
The story I’m writing is fiction, but the story God has written for you is real. You should pick up His book and read it. It has the “greatest story ever told” and is the best-selling book of all time, full of adventure, intrigue, mystery, battles, victories, prophecies, lessons, love and more.
The world can seem like a crazy place, but God has a plan and a purpose for all of us.
My plan, at least for today, was to pass the halfway mark in my word goal for the novel I’m writing. I did it! I'm halfway there!
Maybe the last 100 pages will be more of a breeze to write. (We’ll see. I just found a four-leaf clover. Things are looking up.)
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