12.13.06 Mrs. Grandberry

I’m late.  Two weeks late.  I was supposed to have already turned in the first chapter of my book on the beatitudes to a publisher.  I’m being perfectionistic I know and time’s been scarce with the live CD and new web site to oversee.  But I’ve had a minor breakthrough that has me really liking writing this book again, and that makes me move faster.

I’ve had a hard time putting meaty theological content in with the lighter stories I think shed some light on the theological points I’m making and give a break to readers before they have to dive back into the next deep section.  The problem has been transitioning between the two.  So I decided to separate them entirely, to create bloglike sections, posts with their own character and function.  No transitions needed - most of the time.

But then I worried about the stories being all the same approximate length.  They weren’t.  I’m just OCD enough for that to bother me.  And I wasted a week beefing one story in particular up with extra details and adjectives and walked away frustrated.

The breakthrough was making myself tell the story without worrying about length.  The story is what the story is, even if it’s half a page and the next one is three.  So here’s the story I muttled up with fluff in it’s much more concise form: