You ever have one of those weeks?  You know, the kind where everything happens at once.  In the past week, I have had to deal with 3 impossible situations at work, arranging an insurance roof replacement (the recent high winds in Colorado got us), planning a lesson for youth group this Wednesday, having a visit from my wife’s parents, running sound at church, and buying a car from my oldest daughter.  This coming weekend holds the treasures of cutting down an old tree and chopping it up and working on 2 or 3 cars.  One would think that I could not possibly add one more thing. 

Then, Sunday morning when I got my iPad out to run sound, there was an email waiting.  My week got busier and I got happier.  I learned that I was accepted into the Intensive Fiction Writing Clinic.  I have since read the samples from the other five participants as well as some of the writing of our leader, Tim Shoemaker, and I am very excited for what I will be learning and the friends I will be making. 

My hope and prayer is the the story of Wil Clarey will soon be reaching out beyond the walls of the Solano household.  Please pray that I will be able to prepare properly for the upcoming Writer’s Conference, that I would learn what I need to to write more effectively, and that God will open the right doors that would lead to publishing.

Thank you for your support and for being patient with me.  I will upload another chapter here soon.

May the amazing grace of God fill you with joy!

Richard Solano