Encouragement
All Work, No Play
Rewrite in my own words- Life Balance Journal Sound familiar? We’ve all heard the expression, maybe even joked about it. But do our lives reflect our commitments? Have we allowed work, responsibility and obligation steal the joy and inspiration from our lives? For many, the answer is a resounding yes. But it’s not too late…
I’m Back…
from my weekend of writing and exceeded my goal of 10,000. Plus I FINISHED my mystery novella. Of course it still needs a lot of work, but the hard part is over. Or is it? This is really only the second WIP I’ve completed, and I never even edited the first one. Writing a mystery…
Chasing Rainbows
(c) Staci Stallings, 2005 I’ve always loved rainbows, so this lesson was a little hard for me to learn. A few friends and I got together to sing-one of my favorite things to do. One of the songs we pulled out was about chasing rainbows. It said in effect that we’re all just chasing pretty…
Mystery Novella
I’ve been working on a mystery novella for a couple of months with a great group of gals from my critique group. When this opportunity came about I dropped my current WIPs and jumped at the chance. In fact, it was something I’d been praying specifically for (among other things.) I’m not a huge fan…
Guest Blogger Mary DeMuth on Writing Resolutions
Will this be the year of your dreams come true? Or just another ho-hum year where you plug away (or not) and end up in the same place you were when you started? How do writers break in? Or better yet, break through? If you’d like to head toward that slippery nirvana called publication, read…
SPAM, A LOT
No, not Spamalot, the musical rendition of Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie (which I’ll be seeing in July thanks to hubby’s gift of season tickets), but a lot of Spam applications for my Webring. I’m talking over 260 spam applications that need to be deleted one by one, which means I have to open each…
Mid-Week Motivation
Starting Your Day Out Right! Scripture, Short Devotion “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” ~ 1 Peter 2:2-3 As believers, our beginnings are often very much like our human beginnings. We are young,…
Who Has He Helped Through You Today?
(c) Staci Stallings, 2004 As I write this, it is December 5th. I mention that because with Christmas coming up, it is the season of giving. Along with the normal gifts, this is also the season when our thoughts turn to those less fortunate. The paper angel trees go up in the malls. The kettles…
A Writer Going Home
Celebrating my savior’s birth notwithstanding, at this point I feel loaded down with the holiday season’s commercialism and busyness. Don’t misunderstand. Christmas was great, but how do I come down from it, so I can get back to writing? Sugar plum fairies still dance in my head uninvited. Really, you too? So then, what do…
Introducing: Lisa Biggs Crum
Lisa Biggs Crum is gifted in leadership and encouragement. She shares that gift through writing, speaking, and ministry consulting. (Well, actually thatâs more like a dream at this point.) Her greatest pleasure in life is laughing with her two elementary age children and her husband of nearly 16 years. Read her blog at http://SproutofaMustardSeed.blogspot.com. I…