Hey there,
I wanted to give you a quick update on the writing front.
I’m now about halfway through the first draft of the new Jami Davis novel, and it’s coming along nicely. My goal is still to finish the manuscript this summer.
This book has been different from anything I’ve written before.
It’s a psychological thriller told in first-person present tense. That’s a fancy way of saying the reader experiences everything alongside Jami in real time. No looking back. No knowing what’s around the corner. It’s been challenging. It’s forced me to grow a lot. The Blake Jordan stories tend to focus on external threats—stopping the bad guy, preventing the attack, saving the day. Everything gets wrapped up in a nice littel bow.
This story is different.
At its heart, it’s about saving yourself.
And it’s about identity. The stories we tell ourselves. The parts of our buried past we carry with us. And what happens when we’re forced to confront who we are instead of who we’ve been pretending to be. Writing this story has stretched me in so many ways.
And that got me thinking.
Most of us say we want to grow.
But growth and comfort rarely travel together.
We want the promotion, but not the uncertainty that comes with it.
We want the new opportunity, but not the risk that’s required to try something new.
We want the next chapter, but we don’t want to we leave the old one behind. The problem is that growth requires stretching. And stretching is always uncomfortable.
A rubber band doesn’t expand without tension.
A muscle doesn’t get stronger without resistance.
And people don’t become who they’re capable of being by staying where they are. Looking back, the most important moments in my life didn’t feel exciting at the time.
They felt uncertain.
They felt uncomfortable.
They felt like I was being stretched beyond what I thought I could handle.
Only later did I realize those moments weren’t interruptions to the journey.
They were the journey.
So if life feels a little uncomfortable right now, maybe that’s not a sign that something is wrong or that you’re not walking on the right path. Maybe it’s a sign that you’re growing.
Maybe you’re being stretched.
Maybe you’re about to start the next chapter in your story.
That’s a good thing. Because maybe that’s exactly where you’re supposed to be. -Ken