Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it

I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.