I really love how this song plays with words.  Being “sinners to be saints,” for example. Most people wouldn’t think those two (very opposing ideas) should be in the same sentence, let alone a song that inspires people.  We all make mistakes, my sweet girls. Anyone who needs to beat you over the head over and over about it has their own issues.  A person might need a rest from a situation, so they might quietly go off and do other things, but this person isn’t punishing you.  They just need time.

“Our lives are STORIES,” and OUR story is bound up together, even though we cannot be together right now.

Today, I had a busy day.  I went to my writer’s club and started the process of getting myself into a critique group for my teen fiction story.  This is what happens: I write a chapter of the story and then send it to the people in my critique group.  We agree to meet once a month at someone’s house.  We read over each other’s writing and give our opinions.  We meet and give our opinions orally.  Then we get back 3-4 drafts of our chapter that looks like this:

UGH!  That can hurt.  But it makes us better writers.  And then we decide if we agree with those changes and make them if we do.  Chapter by chapter – that’s how you write a book.  It can be a difficult process.  Right now, there is no room in the critique groups.  But I can work on the story before I submit it to the group.

Anyway, enjoy the song “Sinners” by Lauren Aquilina brought to you especially by your adoring cosmic VJ: The Sketchy Scribe.  XX00