Finding the Time

Finding time to write is something I daily struggle with as a busy homeschooling mom. We all know about full schedules, most of us are writing around them already. For the past eight months, I’ve been hiding behind one excuse or another but what it all boils down to is fear. I’m afraid that I…

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Wordful Wednesday

Obedience and God’s Glory Week three in my study of Experiencing Christ Within is all about how our obedience brings about God’s glory. When I think of obeying God, I think of striving to do what He wants so I can please Him and be blessed. But that’s not what this chapter is about. It’s…

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Time Management 101: Rene Gutteridge

Today Rene Gutteridge is here to share her thoughts on managing your time! The Hard Work of Rest I wouldn’t call myself a work-aholic. Maybe I am and don’t know it. Denial is the first sign of, well, everything bad. But I don’t work 24/7 and I don’t constantly think about work. So….why does it…

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Reevaluation

There’s a lot of things I need to reevaluate in my life. I sort of skipped the New Year’s Resolution/goal setting thing, and it’s time I take a real hard look at some of the areas in my life which have gotten out of balanced. Some of it is the same old, same old…too much…

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What a Fiction Editor Can (and Can’t) Do For You!

Can Do A good fiction editor can take a manuscript that has potential and help it reach that potential. This may include different types of editing and can often take as much as forty hours of work for a detailed, substantive edit of an average manuscript. When you get your manuscript back from a freelance…

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Carnival of Christian Writers #16 – January 2008

A little something to warm you up this month with some great posts in our January 2008 Carnival of Christian Writers Tiffany Colter tells us about her “Lessons Learned and How I Got Here”. Literary Agent Rachelle Gardner outlines some of the basics in “Steps For Approaching an Agent”. Two Christian fiction authors with exactly…

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Writing has become a CHORE!

I know this is Sunday, and I should be posting on faith, but I’m there’s a lot of stuff going on in my brain related to faith and doctrine and such and it’s all because of this. So, until I sort it all out, here’s another taste of what I’m dealing with… I’m 40 pages…

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The Resource Guide to Getting Published

You’ve probably hear of the Christian Writer’s Market Guide by Sally Stuart. I get one every year, and I’m sad to say I don’t always use it to it’s full capacity like I should. But this year I intend to explore the pages and cd, which covers so much more than fiction writing and publishers.…

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