I started a new writing project recently, one that is quite different than anything that I have attempted before. I don’t want to go into to much detail just yet. Many things about it could change before it is completed but at this point there are a couple of things that I know for sure and can share.
- It will be one of the longest pieces that I have ever written if not the longest. It won’t be anything like book length (at least I don’t think it will) but it will be much, much longer than the weekly blog posts.
- If things go as planned it will take around three years to complete and there’s a very specific reason for that length of time.
- I will be releasing it in stages as I reach certain milestones.
- The genre will be loosely “documentary” and I plan to mix my writing with photos and video.
- When all is said and done it might only be interesting to me but that is the kind of risk you take with something like this.
It’s hard to say exactly when the seed for this project was planted but the process that I will be documenting is based on a decision I made a couple of months ago. From the beginning I’ve wanted to write about this particular topic but until I really thought and prayed about it I didn’t really understand how I could incorporate it in to Matthew515 properly.
That praying, thinking and planning process is continuing and will continue because this will be an on-going project with a definite goal at the end. I said earlier that I thought it would take around three years time to fully complete and that is because I have a specific goal of age 45 for completion and I will be 45 in March of 2020.
Although 2020 is my target I always, in everything I do, want to be sensitive to God’s will and His plan for my life. From the beginning I’ve let it be known that I give God full authority to change my course and alter or do away with the project and the goal completely. This project is human initiative but I want it to be human initiative under God’s direction and in a way that would be pleasing to Him. That might mean that the goal gets pushed back (if it moves at all it would be more likely to be pushed back than to move forward and those reasons will be discussed within the project itself) because ultimately the timing is in God’s hands, not mine.
On a personal level, thinking about and planning for something that is several years out is difficult for me to do. I have always been a “right now” person (which is both good and bad) and I’ve not given the future as much thought as I probably should have. I am not a visionary or someone who tends to set grand goals and I tend to stay focused on the here and now. That’s not to say that I never think about what is to come (I am very excited for what God has in store for His children!) but just that I don’t tend to spend much time thinking about what happens next here on earth. For me to have set a goal that is that far out is something brand new and feels as exciting as it does daunting. It’s something that’s not really in my nature so I know that in order for it to be completed the focus, inspiration and energy will have to come from the Lord.
That’s all for now and I hope to have more to say about this in the very near future. My God bless and keep you as you go!