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Finding Your Writing Purpose: David Solomon's Journey with Faith | Episode 210 · Voices for Voices®

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Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you again for joining us on this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
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Justin Alan Hayes: I am founder and executive director of Voices for Voices, justin Allen Hayes.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for your love and support for watching, listening.
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Justin Alan Hayes: We just hit 600 cities worldwide after our last episode and we're close to 60 countries across the world.
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Justin Alan Hayes: So, starting out, never thought we would get to that point.
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Justin Alan Hayes: We had a big goal that we wanted to and and so I think that's a thing to think about is to dream big, have, have big goals and, as our guest on today's show it talks about is, you know, dream, have big dreams, goals.
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Justin Alan Hayes: And you have to be passionate about what you're doing, because the work isn't always glamorous.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Some of the after work and potentially, you know, being invited to, you know, different award shows and and different things and, uh, that's, that's always a nice to have.
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Justin Alan Hayes: But if you don't have that passion to get to that point, uh, it's going to be tough, and there's always that, uh, the saying that I I've heard that you know everybody going to be tough, and there's always that the saying that I've heard that you know everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to put in the work that we just want to organically just become famous and have all kinds of money and not have to work very, very hard.
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Justin Alan Hayes: But that is far from the truth.
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Justin Alan Hayes: That hopefully you learned a little bit from our show and especially from our, our guests.
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Justin Alan Hayes: So this is picking up the the second part of our conversation with past and now current guest, david solomon.
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Justin Alan Hayes: He was talking about how different cultures, different languages, still go back to the Bible and Jesus, even talking mythically and fictionally, uh, and how what we, what we kind of ended on last episode was when, when david was at a studio, uh, work working some, uh, you know, higher, everything's high profile, I guess anymore.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, he's working on on a high profile project and god kind of told him hey, I'd like you to stop and work on this other project.
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Justin Alan Hayes: And when David did that, he was able to help somebody from taking their own life and I think that that's huge.
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Justin Alan Hayes: And while we want to help as many people as possible, and while we, you know, we want to help as many people as possible, but you know, and any number of lives that we can help and share our experience and help from doing something like taking their own life, which is it's hard to work with as the individual, but then as the family and friends, and we all have purpose.
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Justin Alan Hayes: It's sometimes it takes a minute to find that, but David Solomon is going to help talk about his purpose and how that continued to where we're at today.
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Justin Alan Hayes: So, david, if you want to pick us up from where we left off and thank you again for joining us, david, thank you.
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David Solomon: Always a blessing to be here.
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David Solomon: You know, what I was saying in the first part was how you know it's important for us to find our purpose in life, and how to.
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David Solomon: When you're a writer, you want to ask yourself, why am I doing this?
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David Solomon: And then I ended it with of how God used me to touch someone else's life that was going to end their own and that's just so important to find that purpose because I listened to God in that moment and that story, although not produced, made such a difference.
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David Solomon: And then I spoke that on testimony night at a church it's about 2,000 to 3,000 that were in the auditorium, about 200 came to God right around there to the altar because they had never thought of God like that before, and that was a big moment to watch.
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David Solomon: That many people come to God because of a story that God gave me, because of a story that God gave me and that I just humbled myself before God that day and went, wow, okay, god can use even the tiniest person to make the biggest impact.
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David Solomon: What a blessing.
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David Solomon: And it's just how powerful and beautiful and mighty our God really is.
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David Solomon: There was a moment in Maryland and Texas where after that night, I preached again, because Pastor Happy comes back and I said you know I want to talk about God, but I want to talk about it a different way.
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David Solomon: You know I play ball, like a lot of people that know me from back in the day, the true David Solomon amen, that not only grew up riding, not only grew up on a horse ranch, but grew up playing ball.
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David Solomon: My friends in the basketball world know me and we always talked about God on the court.
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David Solomon: In fact, I wrote stories while playing basketball.
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David Solomon: Believe it or not.
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David Solomon: I would go on our old basketball.
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David Solomon: We had a basketball hoop and we had this little place where you could play ball and it was your own yard.
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David Solomon: It was a really beautiful thing I'd just create while playing the sport.
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David Solomon: I'd come up with songs and stories and I would act those out, which means I would act out all the different dialogues.
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David Solomon: So I knew what every character was saying.
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David Solomon: Think of it like.
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David Solomon: What do they call that?
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David Solomon: Deep acting.
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David Solomon: That's not the right word I'm looking for.
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David Solomon: It'll come to me.
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David Solomon: Deep acting, that's not the right word I'm looking for.
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David Solomon: It'll come to me, but not improv Method acting, method acting, Method acting kind of.
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David Solomon: And then from there, my mom had me take lessons through professional works in Shakespeare and in Hollywood to get my acting better, and I worked with a lot of good, you know great people.
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David Solomon: I got to be involved in some heavy plays, one that was kind of a Broadway.
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David Solomon: It was kind of fun.
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David Solomon: I was like 11 at the time.
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David Solomon: Way, it was kind of fun.
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David Solomon: I was like 11 at the time.
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David Solomon: Um, I was just having the time of my life, just, you know, really letting god shine through me.
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David Solomon: I was on fire for god as a kid and uh, so in maryland I I told the story of what I, uh, what I pictured god as, because I didn't grow up with a dad.
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David Solomon: And uh, this, this is what my mom said.
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David Solomon: And then it kind of resonated with me and I kind of made it into my own thing.
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David Solomon: But we're on this, uh, we're on this journey and uh, we're in our ferrari or we're in our motorcycle or we're just doing our own thing.
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David Solomon: And uh, and our dad is calling us to get to the court, want to play some one-on-one, want to talk, want to fellowship, want to get a game and want to see how we're doing.
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David Solomon: You know they're crying over our situation.
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David Solomon: I decided to smoke or drink.
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David Solomon: Today I cheated today, you know.
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David Solomon: Uh, just examples of what people do and and sinners do.
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David Solomon: And so our dad is trying to call us and text us and say hey, you know, I want to check in with you.
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David Solomon: Are you doing all right?
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David Solomon: You know, cast all your cares upon me, he says, and he's there for us.
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David Solomon: And all we got to do is just pick up the phone and say dad, I want to talk to you.
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David Solomon: Dad, I'm having a bad day.
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David Solomon: Dad, you know, this happened and I'm heartbroken.
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David Solomon: Or, dad, you know, I'm so happy today.
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David Solomon: I just wanted to share that with you.
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David Solomon: Thank you for making it possible.
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David Solomon: Dad, and Dad's always on the court.
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David Solomon: That's the funny part.
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David Solomon: Dad is always on the court and he on the court.
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David Solomon: That's the funny part.
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David Solomon: Dad is always on the court and he's ready to welcome you home.
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David Solomon: He's ready to welcome you to play ball again.
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David Solomon: He's always going to wait for you and he's never going to give up on you and he's never going to forsake you.
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David Solomon: And so, if you think of our Father, god, jesus, the three in one, the Holy Spirit, if you think of our Father in Heaven as that dad on that basketball court and he has just not given up on his kids and he's saying I'm going to be here no matter what.
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David Solomon: And that is what my mom used to tell me when I was a kid, because I didn't have a dad.
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David Solomon: Dad is watching.
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David Solomon: If you ever want to talk, just call your dad.
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David Solomon: Call God, and you know, just let him know how you feel.
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David Solomon: Obviously, you don't call him on the phone, you just talk to him and you know.
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David Solomon: You say you know, dad, I want to take you to the court.
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David Solomon: You know, I had anger today, or I was called a name today, or this person did that to me today, or I feel this way today.
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David Solomon: Help me not to do that today.
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David Solomon: And a lot of people struggle with what prayer is, and that's how I tell them how to approach prayer.
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David Solomon: Don't talk to someone like you're going to light a candle and you're going to go.
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David Solomon: You know I'm going to talk to a statue or you know something like that.
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David Solomon: Don't talk to him like that.
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David Solomon: Talk to God like he's your best friend, like he's your dad.
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David Solomon: Just talk to him like a normal person.
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David Solomon: You know, maybe it's a basketball, you know stadium for you.
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David Solomon: Or maybe it's a football stadium, a baseball stadium.
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David Solomon: Maybe you like fishing and you just want to have a little fishing trip with dad, you know.
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David Solomon: But you know that's how I learned who my God is, that's who I learned my relationship with Jesus is.
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David Solomon: That's how strong we are, we're tight net and that that Not a lot of people think of God that way.
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David Solomon: Not a lot of people think that God can just be this normal person you can talk to.
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David Solomon: So I guess a lot of my career really rooted on my faith from a very early age and I just fell in love with sharing that relationship I had with my dad.
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David Solomon: And you know about 14, I made some bad choices.
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David Solomon: We all have and uh, I uh, I didn't do drugs and I didn't drink, but I, uh, I, uh, I hotwired a, hotwired a cop car and uh, you know, I uh, it was a dare and I was dumb.
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David Solomon: I got caught, I turned myself in and that's how guilty I felt.
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David Solomon: And I also got dared to steal a comic book from the place I used to hang out in all the time in Oregon.
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David Solomon: I'd be there every day almost because I would write in there.
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David Solomon: At the time I was writing for Smallville and Arrow and Flash and all these different comic book properties.
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David Solomon: What a blessing I'd write in there.
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David Solomon: Anyway, I was there to steal a comic book.
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David Solomon: It was a $2.99 and it wasn't a big deal.
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David Solomon: But I got out the door with my friend who dared me to do it and I couldn't get in the car with him.
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David Solomon: I ran right back up to the owner and I gave him the comic book and I said I stole this, throw away the key.
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David Solomon: And he had mercy on me and he said you know that is so powerful that you, that you felt the conviction to come forward.
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David Solomon: Thank you for coming forward.
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David Solomon: And so God really put it on my heart, convicted it on my heart to know what was right and wrong at an early age, and I am crucified for that to this very day.
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David Solomon: I'm a very black and white person.
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David Solomon: If my dad on the basketball court says, don't write that, don't do that, don't go into that activity, don't talk to that person, my dad is right.
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David Solomon: God is always right, god is never wrong, god doesn't make mistakes, and so if he's saying that is a mistake, I am going to listen to him 110%.
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David Solomon: Granted, sometimes I try to do it my own way.
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David Solomon: So, getting back to my journey now and to the inspiring writers, we got five points and we got time.
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David Solomon: That is never on our side, amen, so let's get right into it.
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David Solomon: Point two so when we're writing a story, we need to ask ourselves who our audience is.
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David Solomon: Is it ourself?
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David Solomon: Are we writing it to feel good?
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David Solomon: Sometimes we write a story to feel good.
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David Solomon: Sometimes we write a story to heal ourselves, sometimes.
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David Solomon: In my case, I had a best friend who was contemplating suicide.
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David Solomon: Um, I wrote him a.
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David Solomon: I wrote him a short story in a little journal and it saved his life.
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David Solomon: I told him how important they were and how God loved them and I created this entire superhero for them and it changed their life.
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David Solomon: It impacted them.
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David Solomon: It had this big impact on their life not only their life, but their family that saw how dark that place was and that they put that person in that moment.
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David Solomon: That was a powerful, deep, depth and dark moment to withhold.
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David Solomon: It was wow, wow.
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David Solomon: And so number two is why are you writing this story?
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David Solomon: What motivates you to write this story?
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David Solomon: So, find out why you're writing this story.
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David Solomon: Number one is you want to find purpose, but number two is who's your audience?
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David Solomon: Are you writing for yourself or are you writing for others?
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David Solomon: Number three never put yourself down and never criticize yourself and let others criticize you, because you're always doing something right.
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David Solomon: You're doing something wrong if someone ain't calling you names, if someone ain't saying this is horrible and I hate this, this is the worst writing I've ever seen.
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David Solomon: You're doing something wrong if they ain't saying that when you're doing something right for your dad, for the kingdom, the enemy is always going to come and he is always going to attack and he is always going to come and he is always going to attack and he is always going to strike and he is always going to say you're doing something wrong, you stupid, and he is going to get you down and he is going to try to break you.
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David Solomon: But that is where you find your strength, my inspiring writer friends.
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David Solomon: That is where you find your strength, my inspiring writer friends, that is where you find your strength and you let your dad, you let God lift you up in that moment of need, in that moment of crisis, because every writer faces it.
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David Solomon: So, number three it's very important.
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David Solomon: It's very important not to criticize yourself and not to put yourself down and then, when you tell others about your projects, listen to them, listen to who's telling you that's stupid, and then watch the people that think it's not.
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David Solomon: I promise you, even if it's just one person that says that's brilliant, look at where they're at in their walk with God.
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David Solomon: Look at that.
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David Solomon: So don't criticize yourself.
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David Solomon: Don't be your own.
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David Solomon: Critique Us writers, us creators we're always our own critiques.
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David Solomon: I was writing last night and those of you who know, I used to write about 400 pages a day.
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David Solomon: I faced a critical health crisis, so I can only write about 30 pages a day right now, amen.
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David Solomon: And so I wrote the 30th page and I reread it and I went this is the worst page I've ever written.
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David Solomon: No one's going to want to see this.
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David Solomon: No one's ever going to want to read this.
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David Solomon: This is just terrible.
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David Solomon: God, why did you let me write this page.
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David Solomon: I'll just rip it out.
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David Solomon: And then I realized if I rip it out right now, I will never finish this novel.
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David Solomon: I will never get to the finish line, get to the end of my goal, get to the end of that race that I'm trying to run.
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David Solomon: So I let it go.
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David Solomon: I said you know what it's going to come out in editing, I'm just going to keep going forward and not looking back.
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David Solomon: So number three don't be your worst critique and keep moving forward.
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David Solomon: Don't take two steps back and edit your work while you're doing it.
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David Solomon: Worst thing you can do Okay.
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David Solomon: But then she realized well, you can't do that, you know, because then it kills your creativity.
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David Solomon: You just can't do that.
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David Solomon: So don't be your worst critique.
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David Solomon: To that finish line.
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David Solomon: Take a break, give yourself a reward, patch yourself, thank God that you got there.
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David Solomon: But don't say, whoa is amazing me, how sweet the sound.
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David Solomon: Because he didn't save a wretch, or, excuse me, you didn't save a wretch or excuse me, you didn't save a wretch for yourself, he saved a wretch like you.
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David Solomon: So humble yourself before god.
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David Solomon: Humble yourself before the one that gave you the story to create, because you only finished that because he gave you the gift to be that storyteller Number five when you edit.
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David Solomon: Edit with care, edit with caution, edit with precision, but ultimately, edit not to be perfect, but good is good enough.
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David Solomon: Not to be perfect, but good is good enough, or you will never get anywhere.
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David Solomon: We, as writers, are perfectionists.
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David Solomon: The project I'm working on I want to talk a little bit about it Destiny Halls and God's Heroes.
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David Solomon: Justin leaned into that last time and Justin can show you a shot of it for those that want to find it on Facebook.
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David Solomon: This was my first moment coming into Christian fantasy, where I wasn't ghostwriting for people like Brian Davis or other Christian authors who I won't name because of NDAs, but I wanted to make an impact.
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David Solomon: I wanted to tell a story that had never been told.
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David Solomon: So I talked about a descendant of Samson because he's a superhero.
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David Solomon: Right, people say god, you know, doesn't like superheroes.
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David Solomon: What do you call samson?
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David Solomon: Samson is this kid who was blessed with this superpower by god to never cut his hair, and he had super strength.
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David Solomon: I mean, this here sounds like the Hulk, you know, or Superman, amen.
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David Solomon: So that's kind of cool.
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David Solomon: So God loves superheroes and I wanted to do that.
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David Solomon: So I contacted TBN and I contacted some other publishers and I have a contract with them, but I published it on my own until I could, like, find my niche on my own Because, understand, until this point I had never published Christian fantasy under my own name.
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David Solomon: I was always under Brian, or I was always under Ted or other people, always under ted or other people.
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David Solomon: Um, I had written about 81 christian fantasy novels since the age of 14 ghostwriting and that's not including tv shows and movies that I helped, that were secular, amen, and so, um, all the big writers call me to write their books and I was on my own.
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David Solomon: So it's a little shaky.
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David Solomon: It's a little shaky and I'm going to be rewriting it, but it made an impact.
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David Solomon: It made people start a conversation that didn't know who Samson was.
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David Solomon: And then God's Heroes came.
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David Solomon: Two years ago, when I met my beautiful and wonderful wife, who is my best friend.
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David Solomon: She inspired me to create God's Heroes.
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David Solomon: See, the Bible says ask and you shall receive is ask and you shall receive.
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David Solomon: About 2004, on a road called Green Springs in Oregon, or Dead Indian Road is the parallel to it.
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David Solomon: It's this road that's like the cliff, it overlooks the Rogue Valley in Oregon and it's high and there's no rails at that time and at one point in the road my dad was stalking my mom.
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David Solomon: She had just come from Clamas, where I grew up, and we were going to church over there and, uh, and making the hour journey back to home because it was such a beautiful church and so my dad tried to ram.
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David Solomon: My mom prayed to God to send Michael and this giant figure appeared and my dad turned around.
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David Solomon: Of course there's a police report and if you read the police report, there were other people on the road on the other side that saw blindness and they couldn't look.
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David Solomon: So then my mom taught me at a young age ask God and you shall receive.
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David Solomon: But all you got to do is ask.
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David Solomon: He will hear you in your time of need.
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David Solomon: About 2016, ocean Shores Washington.
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David Solomon: In 16, ocean Shores, washington, we were in the middle of a rainstorm and this car was drunk and I don't know what was going on.
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David Solomon: They had a gun and they had the Nazi symbol.
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David Solomon: They started firing on this dirt road.
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David Solomon: We were there because we were on the way to the beach.
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David Solomon: Mom wanted to see the beach.
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David Solomon: We lived in Seattle at the time and mom said make our car invisible, god, make it so our enemies cannot see us and we thank you in advance.
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David Solomon: And they literally drove right next to us, looked us in the mirror, held the gun out the window and couldn't see my mom or me.
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David Solomon: I made it to the beach.
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David Solomon: The police arrested him and mom said God always hears you.
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David Solomon: I made it to the beach, the police arrested him and mom said God always hears you in your time of need.
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David Solomon: I met a missionary from the Philippines not long after.
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David Solomon: They had a similar story where they were going to get caught and they asked God to make them invisible or make it where they could breathe under water for a supernatural amount of time.
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David Solomon: Or a person that was in a fire and he needed the supernatural strength to be fireproof to save his children.
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David Solomon: These are beautiful stories, but they sound like superpowers to me.
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David Solomon: So my mom was a heavy woman of faith and she raised me to be someone that doesn't only believe in the supernatural but sees it.
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David Solomon: And God is the supernatural.
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David Solomon: Don't let anyone tell you that God is not supernatural, because there is a missionary who is going to get killed in North Korea and the only way out Was for God to make them invisible.
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David Solomon: And I got to tell you right now God made that person invisible, that family, and they are safe.
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David Solomon: Amen.
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David Solomon: You know we talk about stories where I've seen it before where God calls certain people to heal people.
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David Solomon: That's a superpower To heal people of sickness, just completely heal them, or deliver them from demons.
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David Solomon: These are supernatural powers.
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David Solomon: So God's Heroes is about normal people who cry out to God in their time of need and God grants them that supernatural power and they become superheroes.
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David Solomon: What a beautiful thing.
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David Solomon: And so I want to portray god to uh to hollywood, and that's just one one impact we're having in hollywood right now.
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David Solomon: You know we uh we've had a lot over the last four, five years, but God's Heroes is a major one in Destiny Halls.
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David Solomon: Those who follow my Facebook GoToGoa I wrote last year.
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David Solomon: I wrote it in a country that hates God, india, and it reached people in India, so I'll be moving forward on that sometime.
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David Solomon: But we are going to produce and create TV shows and movies and books that impact and speak to culture.
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David Solomon: I think it's important for inspiring writers, and this is something that no Christian author will probably tell you, because I was never told it.
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David Solomon: I was told the opposite.
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David Solomon: The Bible says go forth to every nation and tell them what I have told you and given you the good news.
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David Solomon: But doesn't that mean that us authors should go into diverse communities?
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David Solomon: I want to open that communication up.
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David Solomon: What does that mean?
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David Solomon: A Caucasian author writing about African American heroes?
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David Solomon: Or Korean, asian American?
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David Solomon: We should not just write stereotypes.
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David Solomon: We should not just write stereotypes.
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David Solomon: We should not live in the past.
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David Solomon: There are so many people especially in Christian fiction, I'm going to be honest are whitewashed and we don't have characters on the book I'm going to be honest are whitewashed and we don't have characters on the book covers that are diverse.
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David Solomon: So where do those readers go?
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David Solomon: They go to the woke agenda and they get the gays and they get the trans.
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David Solomon: It's a Hope, pride, rainbow Parade, amen.
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David Solomon: But isn't it our responsibility to make sure that they don't go there, or at least create an avenue where they can choose not to go there, let me put it that way.
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David Solomon: But yet we're failing to meet that moment.
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David Solomon: Isn't that funny.
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David Solomon: So I call you, no matter your race, embrace it.
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David Solomon: Don't let your church and I mean this with love it.
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David Solomon: Don't let your church and I mean this with love don't let your church or your church leaders tell you oh, you know, you can't write a diverse story.
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David Solomon: God wouldn't like that.
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David Solomon: God will use your story as he uses a missionary on a missionary field, and he will use that to impact his kingdom and save someone's life.
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David Solomon: That is what puts us different than secular writers.
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David Solomon: I was reading a story the other day Someone said this is a great Christian story.
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David Solomon: You're going to love it.
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David Solomon: It's awesome.
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David Solomon: You know, I was so excited.
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David Solomon: It was good.
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David Solomon: It was going good, and then the F word came, and then the D word came, and then the S word came, and then we were describing cleavage, even though they had a Christian message, even though there was a Christian mythology to the character.
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David Solomon: You're called not to be of this world, but to live in this world.
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David Solomon: We're called to be aliens.
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David Solomon: Did you know that we're literally called to be aliens If you are being made fun of for not writing Game of Thrones, but you're writing Game of Thrones without the sex and the language.
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David Solomon: I mean you're writing Game of Thrones without the sex and the language.
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David Solomon: I mean you're doing something right.
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David Solomon: So it's time to be criticized.
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David Solomon: It's time to have people make hate videos on you.
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David Solomon: It's going to happen, but it's worth it.
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David Solomon: You know how many hate videos I have on me alone's going to happen, but it's worth it.
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David Solomon: You know how many hate videos I have on me alone?
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David Solomon: I don't know, probably hundreds at this point.
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David Solomon: But you know what?
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David Solomon: God bless them, because the more hate that I get, the more blessings are going to come Because I'm doing something right.
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David Solomon: If I'm having that much of an impact on people saying you're wrong, how dare you?
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David Solomon: I have the one person I spoke out against they did this whole video on YouTube saying that my Christian fantasy is porn All because I have a 13-year-old boy have a crush on a 13-year-old girl.
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David Solomon: I'm sorry.
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David Solomon: What would you like me to do?
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David Solomon: Would you like me to have the audacity to have the boy have a crush on a boy and let's just go that way?
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David Solomon: How far is too far?
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David Solomon: And, writers, I want you to challenge yourself on this.
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Justin Alan Hayes: We're really close to the end, just FYI.
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David Solomon: Absolutely so.
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David Solomon: You know, I really hope that this has been uplifting.
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David Solomon: I know you've heard a lot about me.
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David Solomon: If you haven't tune into other episodes about my journey into surviving trafficking.
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David Solomon: But you have your own story.
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David Solomon: Don't listen to my story.
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David Solomon: Make your own story heard.
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David Solomon: Tell your own story.
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David Solomon: Don't listen to my story.
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David Solomon: Make your own story heard.
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David Solomon: Tell your own story.
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David Solomon: God uses your story to touch others.
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David Solomon: So let's hear your story.
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David Solomon: Let's hear your feedback.
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David Solomon: So my email is soldierboywriter w-r-i-t-e-r at gmailcom.
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David Solomon: Sldierboywriter W-R-I-T-E-R at gmailcom.
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David Solomon: S-o-l-d-i-e-r-b-o-y-w-r-i-t-e-r at gmailcom.
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David Solomon: My Facebook page is Mythical Preachers Around the World Facebook.
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David Solomon: Any inspiring authors want to reach out.
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David Solomon: I'm more than happy to give you or maneuver you through guidelines or give you resources to help you get your voice out there to the best of my ability.
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David Solomon: I owe what I am today and I'll end it with this because I couldn't do it on my own, because I tried to be the person that said God, I'm doing your work and I'm listening to you, but I'm not picking up your call.
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David Solomon: And so my wife, my beautiful wife, she had to show me that I needed help.
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David Solomon: She had to show me that I needed help.
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David Solomon: I needed her help to do it, because I couldn't do it on my own, and that's ultimately what sunk my health is.
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David Solomon: I got so engrossed in doing it on my own that I stressed myself to the maximum.
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David Solomon: And so my best friend, my wife, she said honey, one day that's going to destroy you.
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David Solomon: One day you can't do this on your own.
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David Solomon: So now she helps me and I look to her for guidance.
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David Solomon: If she says this doesn't sound right or maybe you shouldn't do that, I try my best, amen, to listen to her.