Bucket List : Writing attempt
My son, Caleb has always told me with a little bit of disgust, “Mom, you don’t have to say everything that you are thinking.” My response was under my breath of course, ‘Yes I do’!
I have always wanted to write a book and was told early in my adult life by a published author and editor, “Kristi, you write like you talk.” And with that bit of criticism, I felt that it wouldn’t be a good idea to put those words on paper. So my idea to write was deleted off of my ‘Bucket List’ of desires.
Time has passed, and I am now thirty years older, I have been given many opportunities to share my words as a teacher of kids, K-8th grades through my role as a Librarian. I have also been asked to speak at women’s events, and retreats to inspire and encourage women in their journey of faith. I love to bring application to what I learn from the Bible, Biographies, other speakers and authors.
My words have been met with acceptance and encouragement from many audiences, and many have made the suggestion that I write them down. Could my words make a difference? If I am authentic, and write just like I speak, would it be valuable?
Stan & I celebrated our 40th Anniversary last month. Those kind of days cause you to look back at your life, and what you have done with it. The road ahead doesn’t look as long as the road behind. I have the time, and even if it is never published, it will be a legacy for my family to remember me. It’s settled, I am writing a book!
My project is based on these verses :
Psalm 78: 4 ” We will not hide them from their children,
but tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and the wonders that he has done.”
Psalm 145:4 “One generation shall commend your works to another,
and shall declare your mighty acts.”
Yours, & His, Kristi
ShowMeAgain Lord- @KristiBarefoot 
YES…..finally! God writing through you will point our hearts back to Him.
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Thanks Mich- you know how long I’ve wanted to do this. Be my prayer warrior!
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Good for you, Kristi. You can do this. I’m so proud of you.
Love you.
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Thanks Artie! You’ve always been my cheerleader! Love you!
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… And btw, what “season” are we in now? Do I even wanna hear that?
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Do it, and it’ll be the first book I read after it’s published.
Also: “You write like you talk” isn’t a criticism to anybody who says worthwhile things when she talks. I couldn’t begin to count all the times I’d have a (college) student in conference on a paper, and when we ran across something she said that made no sense whatsoever, I’d just ask her, “What were you trying to say here? If you were just telling somebody, how would that go?”
Writer explains. Makes sense.
“So why didn’t you do just do _that_ instead? That actually matters to your argument here, and it’s kind of interesting.”
“_Oh_. I didn’t know you could do that. Our high-school English teacher told us not to write like we talk.”
Then we’d talk for a minute about some of the differences that _might_ need be there in certain contexts, depending on audience and specific purpose, but they were always far fewer than the student thought. The net effect of writing like you talk is almost always positive, and usually heavily so. The sense of a person out there actually listening and the attempt to get somebody to understand something important beats the impulse to be dense, self-conscious as to style, and merely expressionistic (as in, no real concern for who reads it or what they do about it) every time.
So yeah. Do it.
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