God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.