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My Writing Blog
I’ve set up a blog to document my writing and publishing journey. I will still post about all my writing adventures here, but my writing blog will be my professional writing website. So check it out and let me know what you think.
Visit the Carnival!
This month’s Carnival of Christian Writers is sizzling with some great posts! These posts fit into the carnival theme quite well this month and if we put them into subcategories you might find: Get Your Tickets, The Fun House, Jugglers and Balancing Acts, Thrill Rides, Games, and some great Food for Thought. Have fun…
Rockin’ Girl Blogger
Thanks to Tricia Goyer, Dineen Miller and Lynette Sowell for nominating me for the Rockin’ Blogger Chick. Now I get to nominate five, awesome rockin’ bloggers!!! I’m going for the not so obvious, but still way cool bloggers! Christa Allen Claudia Mair Burney Meredith Efken Jodi York Staci Stallings
Carnival of Christian Writers #10 – July 2007
This month’s Carnival of Christian Writers is sizzling with some great posts! These posts fit into the carnival theme quite well this month and if we put them into subcategories you might find: Get Your Tickets, The Fun House, Jugglers and Balancing Acts, Thrill Rides, Games, and some great Food for Thought. Have fun…
Faith Crawling
It’s been about three weeks since I’ve been to church. Traveling on Sundays and visiting family has been the major culprit in keeping me from the building, but it shouldn’t be an excuse for why I’ve been distant from God. Life gets busy. Life is busy, and so my prayers become shorter and more rote.…
The Revelation of God
Ever have one of those meetings God clearly ordained? Either you realize it during the meeting, or after, when the facts have sunk in enough to complete the picture. I’ve had many over the years, but never one so clearly ordained as recently. God even made sure my teen-age daughter was completely occupied, and that’s…
Michelle Sutton’s review of Going for Broke by Melanie Dobson
Product Description: The first time Leia pulled the lever on the slot machine she hadn’t felt much, other than maybe a twinge of guilt, knowing how much her husband despised any kind of gambling. After all, she’d just been killing time while nursing a busted leg at the slopes. Several months, thousands of clicks and…
Slow and Steady
Someone told me slow and steady finishes a novel. I’m trying it out this week. Today I wrote 1518 words. Cleaned up a few plot points and plotted out the next couple of chapters. I’m at 35,000 words. I’m shooting for 60,000 and hoping to do it in less than a month. That’s 1,000 words…
Quick Fiction Fixes – Too many action beats
We’re all busy, whether working full-time or chasing/chauffeuring kids around all day. Yet we’re also writers, striving to get our words on paper and then polish it to a sparkle. This column gives quick fixes for fiction manuscripts specifically for busy writers. Pick and choose what works best for you! Be wary of too many…
Making Time to Write
Make the most of every opportunity. (Colossians 4:5, NASB) I think saving time is found in the little things, making the most of every opportunity. Much of this comes from developing good habits and letting go of the bad. For example, I used to stumble down to the kitchen in the morning, turn on the…