Discover your unique voice as an author

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.  ~Mary Dunbar A ray of light from the sun is the cleanest, most perfect thing we can see with the naked eye. It can pass through a murky medium, but it still comes out as pure as it went in. The circumstances of you inner and outer life will change depending on the source of your inner light. What is your source of light?  Use your uniqueness to create a picture book that reflects your talent.
Endless possibilities are yours if you will open your eyes and see them. It is time to awake to your priveledges and advantages. If you do not, and choose to stay asleep when you ought to be awake, to dream when you ought to be doing, you will miss opportunities and be caught in dangers that need a special wakefulness and watchfulness to guard against. When I started writing again after a long break, I had an unparalleled occasion to gain a vivid picture of what I had loved and what I had lost,  uproot buried pleasures, lay sensible plans, stir my conscience  and develop not only strength but skill as an author.
Every now and then in our lives, something  happens that reaches us, even if we are in a deep sleep of denial, a cry of warning from the world of realities and for a moment we are on the verge of waking. Then, when the emotions and turmoil has passed, we are tempted to go on living exactly as we have lived before. This was my chance to do more than just to turn, and mutter in my sleep.
If you unhook the pendulum of a clock the works will keep going fast for a while, but they will soon run down. Draw on the power of your imagination to create a new pendulum for your life. There is a world of art, poetry, science, religion and philosophy to inspire you.  If you are having trouble putting into words what you would like to create for yourself, consider your mind as a picture gallery where you keep images of what you want your life to look like.  Remember, this isn’t about an unrealistic interpretation, this is just deciding to create something different. .  
   If you longing to do something worthwhile, increase your knowledge and understanding of whatever it is you want to do, and make it a priority in your writing. There is a limitless amount of opportunity in the world for people who are willing to have a go. Read the biographies of people you admire. The pages of history are the voice of real living people reminding us that “what man has one, man may do.” Great people in history may be described as those who have been great successes in the world, and those who have been equally conspicuous at overcoming great failure. Take comfort and encouragement in the fact that they had difficulties and overcame them, temptations and resisted them, were often weary and yet they never gave up the struggle altogether and were at one time too weak, yet they conquered in the end.  Your life will begin to change when you stop limiting your thinking to what is possible. Nothing was ever done, and done earnestly and worthily, that was done with half a heart. On every side, the world bears the stamp of the thoughts and the genius of great men and woman  in all the wonderful inventions we use every day. No great works were ever undertaken and brought to fruition by people who were only half hearted.  Albert Einstein, the most prominent scientist of the last century was originally looking for a teaching position and he only took on a position at the patent office as an assistant examiner after two years of unemployment. He came to be regarded as the father of modern physics.  Nelson Mandel, anti-aparthied activist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize has been married three times and spent twenty-seven years in jail in his commitment to peace and reconciliation. While she was writing her multi-million dollar earning Harry Potter series,
J K Rowling was trying to raise a child on her own, living on welfare payments while attending school.  Not one of these people would ever have accomplished the great work of their life in the face of great difficulties and bitter opposition if they had gone into their work with only half a heart.

Talk soon
x Michellewww.michelleworthington.com