Cookies and Cream Hershey kisses...

Are you asking yourself what a Hershey kiss and writing have in common? I hope so...

This analogy will only work if you like to eat chocolate of course yet if you know a chocolate addict - you should be able to relate. 

I have always enjoyed eating Hershey Kisses.  I've been known to start with only one kiss and before I know it - the entire bag is empty.  Once I open the bag and the aroma of chocolate hits my senses - well, lets just say there aren't usually any leftovers.

This is like reading a good book - you start by opening the cover to read the preface and first chapter.  The aroma of a good story starts to occupy your mind. You can smell a great story instantly. 

You check the clock - you have thirty minutes before the kids get home or you have thirty minutes while your cherubs have their music lesson so you dive in - "Mom...hello?  Mom...are we going home?"  What is that noise - oh my goodness - the lesson can't be over you think to yourself.  I just started reading.

This is the type of book I want to write - I want someone to open the cover and start reading the preface with an intention of reading more later - only to find themselves being awaken from their reading stuper with a hunger to read more. 

Even though the bag of Hershey Kisses eventually runs out - the hunger for "just one more" doesn't seem to diminish as quickly. 

The calories stay with us until we exercise in order to shed them.  I pray my book ends leaving the reader hungry for one more chapter - and when they get to the end they have processed enough to satisfy their hunger with a slight craving for just one more - Heidi's story hasn't ended. 

Eventually Heidi's case will close yet our lives will never be the same so there will always be one more chapter to write.  The Cookies-n-Cream Hershey Kiss is my new favorite (next to the seasonal Pumpkin Spice) and I may need to lock them in my van so I don't gain ten pounds. 
Extra weight and going up a pant size is never enjoyable yet devouring a good book and having one's eternal perspective increase - a blessing and gift from God.  :) 

Keep reading!  I'll keep writing!

Thanks for being my prayer warriers!  My personal deadline is slipping away - with the school year started - having difficulty devoting the necessary hours required for higher level writing and revising.  I need to do a calendar of events and "schedule" my writing for October in INK.  Ruth suggested it - yet the pencil erases and the other stuff took its place. 

Pray I find the right balance to write!

Thanks everyone!
Lisa