What Women Want and Less Exciting Thoughts

Wow - It has been almost two years since I last posted. I have blog shame. Not only had I stopped blogging, but I stopped WRITING! (Creatively, that is.) The events of the past two years snuffed out any desire to put real feelings out there for everyone to read. No doubt some of the experiences of the missing months will spill out onto these pages eventually, but for now, it is enough that I am writing again.

The ironic part of starting to blog again is that my last post asks a question about how wives can invite their husbands to make the relationship a priority and what we can do to get them to want to grow intimacy together. (Again, I will say I know there are many husbands who already desire and work on these things. My interest is in those who do not.) What I have learned in the past two years is a shocking truth, and may be terrifying to many women. That is the subject of one of my book proposals, and you will be hearing more about that later, I'm sure. If anyone (male or female), has any ideas on the subject they'd like to share, I invite you to comment.

On a more current note, I have just returned from a writer's conference, and I had such a great week of meeting other writer's, pitching ideas to editors, learning some new, practical tips on getting published, and even enjoying times of solitude. I interested two editors in the book proposal I took with me, got a nod on my Marathon Bible Study, and picked up another book idea with an invitation to get that proposal in as soon as I could! So we'll see what comes of all that. But now the hard work begins!
My mind is full of questions and I'm caught between confidence and cluelessness. The market has changed in the 15 years since I last published, and the digital implications are overwhelming. But good writing is still good writing.

I am praying for direction and affirmation in my writing goals. God is good and His timing is always perfect. I've been waiting a LONG time for this calling to come to fruition. Has anyone else out there felt like their dreams may never come true?