Catherine Hackman

My friend has started praying for me to finish Hieu’s memoir by the end of the month. I am praying for that, too. God is answering our prayers. Every time we have a snow day, I work on the memoir. So far this month: two snow days.

God is working in another way, also. He’s opening my mind to how to structure and write the memoir. I had hit a block for a few months. After the first round of edits, the editor suggested a complete restructuring of the memoir. I had arranged it by topics; he told me to arrange it chronologically–which made sense, but entailed hours and hours of rewrites. Also, I had to figure out how to rearrange all of the information. Around Christmas time, the words started flowing, and a logical way to restructure the memoir took shape.

In case you are curious, this draft is taking between 3 and 5 hours of revising per chapter. A few chapters are taking longer because of the work involved in moving around the information.

Even though it is sometimes arduous, I am loving this process.