I have a bit of a love hate relationship with writing. I love idea’s, I love thinking, I love trying to work out clever ways to communicate what i am thinking. However, when it comes to sitting down and ‘crafting’ something…I often find it tough. I lack the patience required to spend the time making a writing piece truly well written.
Having said that there are times when I start to write and just cannot put the pen (well actually, generally keyboard) down. Idea’s flow and I really enjoy the process. For years I thoroughly enjoyed blogging here regularly…but over the past year I have had real difficulty with this.
Part of this probably has a lot to do with the fact i have another blog to update. AussieGreenThumb.com is going really well and is showing signs that it could actually be a profitable blog down the track. However what this means is I need to write roughly 15-25 articles per month of around about 500 words PLUS a monthly newsletter of around 2000 words. This can sometimes feel like quite a chore and generally doesn’t leave me with much motivation to write anything else.
At the start of this year I also started to write a book. Well it is probably more truthful to say i started to plan to write a book. I do actually still intend to write this book however it will likely be over a number of years. A lot of what I want to write in it is being road tested in my ministry. I have always been someone who wants to do things before I am qualified to actually do them, or before the best time for me to do them. An example of this is that within a year of starting youth ministry I wanted to train leaders. I wanted to write leaders manuals to help new leaders in ministry. I wanted to run training courses for youth leaders from other churches. However…who would want to hear from a 19-20 year old with 1 years experience? Now with 7+ years experience and as a youth pastor I am starting to be involved in this area. What this leads me to think is that my book, though it is a great idea, if probably something I should actually write in 5 years time (or write over the next 5 years and release in 5 years time).
I do desire to write more here, especially as I go through the process of planting a church. I’d love to discuss what is going through my mind. Hopefully there will be times where I will not be drained from the other writing projects I have on the boil.
