April 08th, 2024

The buzz of excitement!
I’m excited! You might wonder as there is so much pain and conflict in parts of the world like Ukraine as I write!  Life still goes on and we can only continue to hold God’s creation in prayers. Back to my excitement. No, to all your thoughts about a published book, a completed manuscript, a compelling review, a contract offer… I’ll give you a clue. It couldn’t have been easy for our Papa God to have created the world in the time He did! He had it all planned out and like us, must have mulled over what things to prioritise.  It was hard work and it had to be perfect. What excited God was His doing something new and completely different from all His other works of creation. That was when He created you and I! He said, ‘Let us make man in our image’. Surely, it was the creation of Man that pleased Him the most. He must have been excited. How do we feel when we create new genres and works? Excitement.
In November last year, during the NaNoWriMo season, I birthed a new book of 50,395 words - Prophetess but this is not why I am excited.  Prophetess was created in 2 weeks and I rested for 14 days compared to our Papa’s one day rest but this isn’t why I’m excited. Like our Papa God, I have done something completely different from what I have done with all my other writings. Prophetess is a Christian Dystopian Fantasy fiction eliminating all the evil arising from war, sickness and unfulfilled dreams. My first attempt at this genre but that’s not my excitement.  Here is what excites me. All my other works were edited by me. Yes and I’m proud of the comments some people made in their reviews of my writing as ‘Nigerian English’! No offence taken.  It settled an awareness. Now for the first time, I have sought the service of an accomplished renowned editor! Watch the space.
 
God is excited in creating humans every second.  The Human species is a multi-genre of Beings, metaphorically! To me, Prophetess is new specie in its genre and created in the image of ‘British English’[for laughs].  Editing in its full entirety.  I am so excited. Can you step back a moment and ponder why else Papa God might have been excited in creating you and I? Is He excited when we birth new books as an extension of His creativity?