Hard to believe, right? Winning a single contest could change the path of your life so irreversibly, but it did. Like most writers, I grew up wanting to be a writer and for a number of what seemed like very practical reasons didn’t pursue it. Years later, after getting an…
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Ready, Set – FAIL
What if God’s plan for your new ministry, new job, new relationship is for it to fail? What do we do with that? Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while. I’m reading through the book of Isaiah with my mentor. We’ve never been to seminary. We’re not biblical scholars, but…
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What Does Your Writing Cost You?
The very best writing we’ll ever do is the kind that forces you to rally your courage, expose yourself emotionally, by putting your thoughts and opinions out for critique whether it’s pitching an agent, in a blog post, an article or book. But that’s only part of the cost though,…
Writers Need Discipline, Devotion and Dedication
Writers are supposed to be this erratic, emotional, slightly-unhinged, unpredictable mess. I mean, that’s what popular culture says. But to be successful at writing requires equal parts devotion, dedication, and discipline, and there’s not chaos involved at all! So, I’m hanging out on Twitter and see a tweet come through…
Don’t Let Doubt Stop You From Writing
I spent the weekend at WANACon – well, I spent the weekend in my jammies, with no makeup, and listened to and chatted in real time with some best selling authors at WANACon. This is the beauty of a digital writer’s conference. I had been sick all week. If this…
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Where I Come From
I am from family dinners of meat and boiled potatoes at the table each night, from Coca-Cola and road-trips for ice cream and chip truck fish and chips (french fries), salt & vinegar potato chips that leave your mouth numb, soccer games with the boys, and always had two or…