Mind Over Matter: Starting off the New Year Right!
It’s a new year! Cue the confetti! Wait! What’s that? Feeling a little shy to enter the new year? I SO hear that! The past couple of years, I have struggled immensely as...
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One Person’s Hope May Depend on Your Investment of Kindness
Some of my most intimate friendships formed while attending conferences for writers. In fact, if not for the selfless investment of kindness from a new friend, my first conference experience may have been my last. Continue Reading
The Value of a Heart Set Right
If I were going to run a long race, I’d have an idea of what it would take. It would obviously be physically taxing, but I could train for that. It would be mentally taxing, and...
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Should you keep writing if no one is reading?
I spent hours crafting what I thought was the perfect blog post. I wrote, rewrote, took some time and wrote again. Then I had my husband (who, granted, is not a writer but is an honest...
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Finding Your “Get Up and Go” When It Has Gotten Up and Gone
Climbing out of bed, I snuck quietly to “the spot.” It is my favorite place to write — a cushy recliner with a soft blanket to keep me warm. Hoping no one would wake up and...
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Learning to Approach Your Writing Goals With Open Hands
The New Year is almost here, and many of us are setting goals to ensure 2022 is our best year yet. The first step in the believer’s goal-setting process is to pray. When we set goals...
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Compelled by the Savior
By the glow of your computer, you may wonder what this writing life is worth. These heavy days of unbelief seem to tarnish the joy that decorates this holy season. “Hallelujah!” seems the word of fading...
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Why We Can Be Thankful for the Waiting in Our Writing Journey
I have always admired cypresses. Their shape, like a finger reaching to the sky, resonates with the audacity of the dreams I have. These evergreen, sturdy trees remind me it takes courage to reach to the...
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Six Steps to Get Out of a Writing Rut
We’ve all been there at some point in our writing life. A writing deadline looms before us, and when we sit down to write, nothing happens. If you are anything like me, you know...
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Feeling Inadequate? God Will Give the Increase
Growing up, I loathed Language Arts. Conjunctions, prepositions, adjectives and all the like were dispiriting topics for my mind to comprehend. Singing along with Schoolhouse Rock! was when I felt most grammatically...
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