How to spark a spark that wont spark.

Writing has never really been my thing. From my lit teacher that never liked my writing, to my comp teacher who absolutely loved my writing. I never thought what I had to say was important and the things that I wanted to say, i didn’t know how to convey them. During my sophomore year of high school, my teacher asked us to read an article, similar to the chapter written by Ballenger, on picking a topic that I enjoyed and expanding on it. Then the assignment to go along with the article, was to write on something, anything that I enjoyed. Well, me being a teen who thought nothing was important enough to write about in my first college class in high school. I sat for hours trying to think of something. Now I kinda wish I had Ballenger’s formula on writing, because sparking that one idea has always been hard for me. SPARKING A SPARK THAT DIDN’T EXIST. I didn’t know how to pick a topic that I enjoyed. SO finally I picked some random topic, probably swimming, because that was my life at the time. But then I ran into the issue that Reid wrote about, exigency. WHAT WAS I SUPPOSE TO WRITE. Instead of going into this in depth study on swimming, I did a surface level research job and a mediocre writing job on a topic that I loved but didn’t think there was much more to write about. Flash forward to today,SPARK, I have finally figured out a way, other than Ballenger’s to make a SPARK. I do word studies. I enjoy studying and reading the bible. But I had an issue, many of the words I didn’t understand the actual word or even the heart behind it. SO what I started doing was word studies on those words, looking at the Hebrew and Greek, getting a better understanding of what I was reading. This turned into me doing extensive research, gaining an exigency 😉 on different topics of the bible. I have now written numerous bible studies on cosmology, faithfulness, steadfastness, watchmen, and many others, all because I started these word students. I think what Ballenger is saying in his chapter, is to make these lists on things you like and understand and Reid wants us to ask ourselves questions about importance and its reliability to ourselves to help us develop these sparks that don’t come very naturally. To Spark a Spark doesn’t have to be difficult when we expand our knowledge on things we think.