No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.

He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

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

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.