How often in your life have you had moments when things happened that you couldn't quite explain. You sit there in amazement wondering how in the world did all the things that had to happen for you to end up where you ended up to see the results that you had only "dreamed" about to see someday when you thought about what you wanted.
I have had many such incidents happen in my life to ignore the fact that there is an intelligence beyond our comprehension directing events in such a manner that things we had thought about as impossible to pull together are pulled together effortlessly. I am in the process of writing a book that I had thought about writing a couple of years ago. I had the central idea or the theme for the book. When I sat down to start writing, I had no idea where to begin or how to put the thoughts in an organized manner so it could be useful to the end user.
I read books, I have taken classes in the past on writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and yet I couldn't get started. I even had people willing to market the end product for me and had started hinting to their lists what was coming. The book never got beyond an idea. The idea kept nagging at me from time to time and I would play the scenario in my mind of having it completed and being sold by my friends and associates via viral marketing techniques. Yet, the book remained only in my imagination as a raw idea.
Recently, I talked to a friend about helping me write it. She jumped at the idea. We planned to meet to discuss what I had in mind. She helped me with preparing the outline, and we talked about making this a joint project so she can be a co-author rather than a ghost writer. A week went by and we didn't get beyond the outline. This morning I sat down to do some writing and as I started "writing" my thoughts, it occurred to me that this project is in reality two dreams manifesting themselves, mine and hers. Add to that the circumstances under which we met, and I started getting goosebumps. WOW! All the things that had to have happened for us to work together on this project which is culminating into something neither of us had imagined as the end result, and yet it is fulfillment of both of our individual dreams that are totally unrelated in nature and scope.
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Rasheed - the more you simply sit down and write this book as if you are simply writing to any of your friends - just as you write to me or the way that you speak to me when we speak on the telephone - then the easier the words will flow and then as the words begin to flow - the easier they will flow as a river that has broken out of being restricted by the damn -
You will be writing - not to write a book - but to explain to me what it is that you would like for me to understand and then things will all fall into place - for then you will understand why you are writing and then you will know even better how to explain to me what it is that youwould like to say!
thank you!
Walter :-)
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