I got another ‘A’ in my class.
And now I’m about to get another one.
This semester I’m taking Issues In Marriage & Family. I had no idea what this course would be like but I was pleased to see that it was more than a course on romantic relationships. It’s more about how life transitions like divorce, death, getting your first car, your first boyfriend or whatever, affect the family unit.
Hmm.. Never thought about that. If I’m going to be counseling families, it’s important to take a look at what stage of development each individual is in and then be mindful of those individual transition stages.
So we watched a movie about a crazy ass family. Each individual had his own issues but as a whole, their individual issues affected the way their family related to each other.
We have two projects in this class. The first is a group presentation of a transition- our group chose graduation. We have to come up with a 20 minute skit and presentation about how a graduation affects the entire family. My job is to write the skit, others are doing more research and stuff.
My second assignment is to do an interview and write a paper about another transition and then present the paper in class. I was going to write about my little sister’s divorce but now I think I’ll have to change it something else. Maybe I’ll find someone who fell in love or maybe I’ll find someone who fell out of love. Or maybe I’ll write about losing a job or something. How does that affect the family? I don’t know. We’ll see.
I’m only half way focused on this class because my mind is so set on finishing this book. It’s all outlined and half way written, but I can’t FORCE myself to write it. I have to be relaxed and inspired which means my mind can’t be cluttered with a lot of other issues. I don’t want it to be a bunch of junk, I want it to really read like it’s straight from my heart.
I also am really hoping to be published in at least ONE major magazine soon. I’m gonna try Essence again. ~sigh~ They rarely even write you back to say No, but I’m gonna try.
I think I’m more focused on becoming an author because that makes you an expert on the topic you write about and it will be easier to get writing and speaking jobs if I’ve written a book on the topic I want to pitch article on. ~shrug~
Ok. It’s gonna happen. I’m nearly caught up on my articles and blogging all across the net, so I’m gonna spend tonight doing my thang, sending the chapter drafts over to my designer and hopefully by next week, I’ll have a rough draft of my book. At least I’ll be able to see how long it is and if I need to add more content and where I need to add it.
I’m shooting for around 100-125 pages. I want it to be a quick read and easily transferrable from purse to purse and hand to hand. The title of the book is a guaranteed winner I promise you, but I want the content to be equally stimulating. Lemme go get some cookies or something, I’ma try again to pull an all nighter and get two more chapters drafted.
I’ve done the introduction, the How to use this book section, chapter 10, chapter 8 and chapter 1. Oh, sorry, I didn’t mention it’s a self help book so that’s why I can write the chapters in whatever order I want to.
After tonight, I should only have 4 more chapters left.
It’s all in my head. Let me try to get it on paper.
Wish me luck!