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Is Your Burden Light?
How many of you feel overwhelmed at times? Between family, work, church, home and all the other responsibilities we have, we can get stressed out and worn out. Yesterday I came home early to get ready for our Women of the Church meeting. Here’s what I intended to...
Writing is Like Homemade Ice Cream
We had an ice cream social at church Sunday evening and I volunteered to bring some homemade ice cream. When we were kids we often made ice cream in the summer. With our own milk cow we had an abundance of cream and it was probably a good way to keep us busy for 30...
Thoroughly Modern Jane
I love Jane Austen's books. I've read them over and over and over. I've read spinoffs, modern interpretations and just about anything else Austenesque (except the zombie books--I mean, really). I've watched the movies and loved some and loathed others. And now the...
Hanging Ten with the Queen of Mystery
It's always fun to learn interesting facts about favorite authors. But when my mom sent me a link to Agatha Christie's Surfing Secret Revealed, I thought it was a joke at first. Agatha Christie--who I think of as Ms. Marple--surfing?!? Yes indeedy. She learned to...
What's in a Name?
At the writer's conference I attended someone asked me what name I want to write under. As you can see from the title of this blog, I'm attached to all my names. I've also published my poetry under all four names. BUT I understand that it's problematic in the...
How to Sabotage Your Writing
One of the sessions offered last weekend discussed things to avoid in writing. It's an excellent primer on how to never get published. Here's where I come clean. Give too much back story in the beginning. Okay, I definitely did this in my first draft. Tons of...
Ten Gifts for Today
Ann Voskamp's "One Thousand Gifts" has been on the NY Times bestseller list for something like 25 weeks now. It was a treat to hear her speak last weekend and inspiring to know that she's a big ole chicken just like me. Afraid of flying. Afraid of speaking in front of...
The Tip of the Iceberg
My weekend conference was wonderful. Exhausting, overwhelming, intimidating and wonderful. Here are a few of the highlights: In Rachelle Gardner's class on writing book proposals that sell, I learned that I've been doing a pretty good job of technically following the...
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