by Peter Leavell, @PeterLeavell
When are you going to give into the peer pressure to write?
When are you going to give up and live the life that calls you?
When is enough enough and you step into the person you were meant to be?
What will it take for you to forsake the unnecessary and embrace the world that feeds you?
What line must you cross when can you say, ‘I’m a writer?’ so you can finally stop playing and be one?
What will it take to convince you to cross that infernal line?
How will you start slowly adjusting tiny things in your life to make every step look like progress toward being a writer?
What, now that you know something about writing, is your final goal?
What is your first baby step toward your goal?
What is your next baby step?
How will you recover if you take a step too big to handle?
How will you make a space to write?
How will you make a regular time to write?
What must be done to block the drain on your reserves?
When will you stop infusing blogs like drugs and instead grab a pen, a lonely hill, a jug of wine, and answer each one of these questions?
Where did the answers to becoming a writer come from—your rational soul or your flighty logic?
How can you breathe without writing?
When are you going to give up and live the life that calls you?
Philip Anderson keeps his past close to the vest. Haunted by the murder of his parents as they traveled West in their covered wagon, his many unanswered questions about that night still torment him.
His only desire is to live quietly on his homestead and raise horses. He meets Anna, a beautiful young woman with secrets of her own. Falling in love was not part of his plan. Can Philip tell her how he feels before it’s too late?
With Anna a pawn in the corrupt schemes brewing in the nearby Dakota town, Philip is forced to become a reluctant gunslinger. Will Philip’s uncannily trained horses and unsurpassed sharpshooting skills help him free Anna and find out what really happened to his family in the wilderness?
Peter Leavell, a 2007/2020 graduate of Boise State University with a degree in history and a MA in English Literature, was the 2011 winner of Christian Writers Guild’s Operation First Novel contest, and 2013 Christian Retailing’s Best award for First-Time Author, along with multiple other awards. An author, blogger, teacher, ghostwriter, jogger, biker, husband and father, Peter and his family live in Boise, Idaho. Learn more about Peter’s books, research, and family adventures at www.peterleavell.com