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You Want Me to Speak? But I’m a Writer…
Everyone has their calling. For as long as God deems it, mine is writing and encouraging women in their faith. Some people are gifted at doing multiple things – such as writing and speaking. I don’t enjoy speaking. Yet for whatever reasons, God seems to keep pulling me out of my comfort zone. It started…
How to Homeschool and Write
I’ve always marveled at writers who homeschooled and did both successfully, mainly because I struggled in to do both at the same time. In my quest to learn how to write and homeschool, I had the privilege to interview those who proved it could be done. With the start of the new homeschool year, I…
What Percentage of Your Social Networking Should Be Promotional?
Several years ago, a marketing firm revealed what many already knew: 40% of Tweets are pointless babble. That’s “babble” as in tweeting about What you’re eating, What you’re wearing, What you’re watching, and What time you go beddy-bye. Of course, what constitutes “pointless babble” is mostly determined by the follower’s interest in the Tweeter. I…
Vision Trouble
by Tammy Nischan On the way to work one day I kept thinking, ‘My right eye seems blurry. I must have my contact lens in upside down.” When I arrived at school, I went straight to the restroom and discovered that there is actually no lens in my right eye! I don’t know how I…
Oh, My Aching Muscles!
After prolonged neglect, muscles tend to let us know when they are not pleased with a sudden change in activity. Surely, you have experienced this. You set a goal, gather up some motivation, and head to the gym. Thinking you can pick up right where you left off, you crank out a 60 minutes workout…
Whose Point of View
Psalm 37:30 – The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks what is just. The greatest jolt for a reader is to be absorbed into a story, sensing the urgency of the dangers, feeling the onset of emotions, being carried away by the events, when all of a sudden, the story…
Ape House by Sara Gruen
In Ape House, Sara Gruen’s follow-up novel to Water for Elephants, Gruen again finds a unique setting: a lab where scientists work with bonobo apes on interspecies communication. The scientists, led by Isabel Duncan, teach the bonobos English and sign language so that the apes can understand English and respond with sign language. John Thigpen,…
Seasons of Waiting or Excuses?
In January, I was all set to dive into my WIP. I had just put my daughter in school full time, and I had my days mapped out by the hour. Then “I got the call.” The novella I submitted to Barbour for an anthology the week before was sold! After the shock registered, I…
Fears, Doubts and Excuses!
Seems like the internet is full of fearful, doubting, excuse making writers this week. So instead of adding to the mix, I’m going to serve up all the great posts! Writers and Doubts by James Scott Bell Writing Through Doubt by LL Hargrove The Myth of Having More Time Someday by Jody Hedlund 7 Steps…
Put me in, Coach!
The steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. ~Psalm 37:23 I am the poster child for Writer…Interrupted. At my house “quiet moment” is an oxymoron. That said, I never seem to get enough done, whether it’s praying, cleaning, writing, or anything I put on my to-do list.…