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Feeling Burned Out?

Have you ever felt tired and worn out? Burdened with obligations and things to do? Like there’s never enough time? Have you ever felt like “Help!” is all you can pray? I have. I think we all have. In my writing, my own writing competes with obligations to my coaching …

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The Best Writing Advice

Someone recently asked me, “What’s the best writing advice I ever received? “Get up earlier.” This came from my mentor, DiAnn Mills when I whined about not having enough time to write while also working a full time job. So I did. I began a daily routine of beginning my day …

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Meet Morgan Busse

  It’s an honor to welcome my writing friend, Morgan Busse, to my blog today. Tell us a little about yourself I am a wife, mother, and author. I write Christian fantasy and steampunk for the adult market. I’m married to a wonderful, wacky guy (who also happens to be …

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When Writers Slump

We all get those times when our get up and go got up and went, leaving us behind. It’s an effort to get up in the morning and to start on our daily activities, like going to work, doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning. Whatever tasks call us. Those times when …

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Wherever I Go

Sometimes in the hurriedness our lives can become, I’m swamped by doubts. Am I doing the right thing? Am I following God’s plan for me? Wherever I go, life swirls around me in a blizzard of activities and chores and obligations mixed with those things I’m called to do: write, …

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Patience, NOW

There is a scene in Star Wars, Episode IV, where Luke is attacking the Death Star, about to drop a bombdown a chute to the core of the weapon. His wing commander tells him, “Wait for it. Wait for it. Did you know the Lord tells us basically the same …

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What Keeps Us Going?

Earlier today I was preparing a topic for an online discussion group. The topic asked about moments when readers told us our writing affected their lives. Over my years of writing I’ve received many compliments about my stories and my characters, about how my fiction entertained and sometimes presented stuff …

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Don’t Get Trapped

Pillar 6 of the Writing Life As writers, there are certain traps, misconceptions and attitudes we can fall into. If we stay in these traps too long, our writing careers will be derailed, sometimes before the first stretch of track is laid. Trap #1: Everything I write is publishable No, it’s …

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Investing in Ourselves

Pillar Three of the writing life is investing. We invest our time, our talent, and our finances in growing as writers. Alton Gansky once said he had the secret to making a small fortune in writing—start with a large fortune. We invest in our writing with the hope we will …

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Journeys Within Journeys

Frequently, when speaking with readers and other writers, the subject of theme or message comes up. What is the message of the story? What themes run through the story? What does the story say about the human condition? Themes are not always blatant or obvious. If they are, it may …

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