What is your SEASON to do?

3/11/2010

What is it your SEASON to do?

Ecclesiastes reminds us that for everything there is a time and
season...what is it your time to do?  Laugh, cry, sing, dance, embrace, shunvembracing?  Is it your time to create?  The "buzz" among CCA Members is that times are tough and bookings are scarce....so does that mean we are through?

Finished?  Gotta get another job?  No, I rather think it means that it is
our season to be creative in other areas.  Perhaps you have often said, "I'm going to put that in my book someday."  You may want to consider that someday is now today---perhaps it's your season to shine in the area of writing.  Often a comedian is regarded as more well rounded with a book and can find a larger audience after penning his/her comedic inspirations.  For the most part, if you think funny enough to be a comedian, you can probably think funny enough to write about your crazy life's experiences.  My advice? Start today.  Pick up a pen and write about one funny thing that comes to mind.  Then tomorrow, make it a goal to write another story.  Find a friend who can critique your material and help you know where you are weak and where you are strong as a writer.  Be willing to take the criticism and get as good as you possibly can with a pen a paper.  Before you know it---you will have enough material to package those morsels of laugh-ability---to give them a name---and put them on your product table!

May I reiterate from the "Revised Kay version of the Bible": For everything there IS a season, A time to write...and a time to publish what is written. Make this first a matter of prayer and then, get to work.  I for one, am anxious to hear what you have to say.  Ponder Deut 30:11, "Lord, what you are commanding me today is not too difficult for me or beyond my reach."  

From the girl who was paralyzed emotionally in High School from a writing assignment gone bad, 

Kay DeKalb Smith