To interact on Friday, please go to Seriously Write. Today I offer words of encouragement, but let me begin with a story. I started my first real novel in 1988, abandoned it quickly, and picked it back up to finish …
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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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Everything slows in the summer, including blog and periodical readership. Everyone is outside enjoying the sun, the sky, and the beauty of God’s creation. It typically takes a blogger 10-15 hours to write one blog, edit it, and prepare it …
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To read this blog on Seriously Write, click HERE. In the early days of Title IX, I attended a small high school working to establish an equal number of sports for girls as we had for boys. As a result, …
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Featured on Seriously Write today. To participate, CLICK HERE. The Corinthians had many problems in their churches: drunkenness during communion, disorder in their worship services, and open immorality, to name a few. They also had the divisive issue of favoritism …
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Fallen is a story about the incredible mercy and grace of God. In the beginning, we chose to disobey, yet He already had a plan in place to redeem us by sending His Son. He loves us that much! The …
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There I was, cruising down the writing road, pursuing my dream. Life was grand! I was a blogger; I had some pieces published. Of several drafted novels, my first was on its way to publication. I was one happy woman! …
Continue Reading →Upon infant earth, the Creator shapes a man and a woman, the beginning. Blissful love and innocence reign. But evil encroaches. Fallen is our story, the story of the beginning of humankind and how quickly we made the decision not …
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If you’ve been writing, editing, attending workshops, and refining your craft, and yet you still haven’t been published, let go of impatience, trust God, and try to relax and enjoy where you are. At this moment in time, you can …
Continue Reading →The manuscript is back from my editor! I’m so excited! Now is my opportunity to put the final polish on Fallen after the fine-toothed combing of my content editor Joe Coccaro. A good editor like Joe helps a writer to …
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