If you’ve ever relocated, you know how the experience dislocates us from past routines, identities, and spiritual practices. We humans are creatures of habit and community. As we establish patterns of life, the longer we do them, the deeper grows …
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To interact with this post at Seriously Write, click HERE. Dear writer, don’t despise your humble beginnings, whether these include your level of education, the size of your community, or the poor and simple family life from which you emerged. …
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If you’re like me, you wish you could read the first chapter of a book before you buy it. Will it be any good? That first chapter can tell you a lot! If this sounds like you, and you love …
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I wanted to arrive in Texas with lots of money, to finally attain my flawed Americanized vision of what a “mature” believer should look like – comfortable and complacent in my financial planning. These desires should have tipped me off. …
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To interact with today’s post, go to SeriouslyWrite. Today everything we own is being loaded into a truck to be hauled away. Strong men with burly arms heave our earthly possessions out the front door, up a gangplank, and into …
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To engage with this post on Seriously Write, click HERE: We all have them. Wild times. There are times when our worlds come crashing down around us, when everything falls apart and calamities multiply. Beloved family members need care, someone …
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This post appears today on Seriously Write. To interact there, click HERE. When I attended my first writers’ conference, I learned that authors who wanted to publish were expected to have a blog. That trend had begun years earlier with …
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Now that No Longer Alone has been launched and sales are clipping along, I’m working on the sequel. I’m thoroughly enjoying writing this next story! America enters The Great War. It was later known as WWI after it proved not to …
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To engage with this article, go to Seriously Write. This Labor Day weekend I’m going to be controversial. I encourage you to follow God’s leading for your writing career, even if it deviates from the expectations of others and even …
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Unless you’re regularly on social media, you probably haven’t seen some of the interesting stories I’ve been sharing about the backstory of No Longer Alone and how my personal journey as a believer has impacted my fiction. With the help …
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