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    Category: Becoming a Professional Writer

  • Summertime—When the Living and Writing is Easy (-ier) Tuesday, June 4th, 2019     Start the Conversation

    @LisaCarter27 School is out. No more carpool. Schedules are more fluid, and routine is out the window. Until September. . . . But I'll think about that another day. For now, I intend to enjoy the summer season in all of its fullness. Summer is a time of growth, not…

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  • Remembering Those Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice for Our Country Monday, May 27th, 2019     Start the Conversation

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  • Love, Listen, & Write Monday, May 13th, 2019     One Comment

    @BisbanoWrites The church is filled with many personality types with different levels of brokenness. We all process information differently, filtered by past experience, hurts, pains, and joys. As authors we desire our writing to point people to Christ. He is the ultimate healer and He will use our words to…

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  • Dreaming Writing Dreams and the Long, Slow Obedience Tuesday, May 7th, 2019     3 Comments

    @LisaCarter27 Ten years ago, God put it on my heart to get serious about this secret dream of writing I’d had since I was a child. In fact, He compelled me to take the stories swirling in my imagination and write them down. Thus far, God has blessed me with the…

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  • Homonyms for Writers: Did You Sea/See There/Their Mistake? Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019     One Comment

    @CindyDevoted Homonym– A word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air or bear and bare. I love editors. They’re a breed all their own. A bit OCD and a bit of the perfectionist’s mentality, they’re the eyes…

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  • Trust the Closed Publishing Doors as Much as the Open Ones Monday, April 22nd, 2019     3 Comments

    @JennyLCote Memorize this right now: This is MY doing. (I Kings 12:24) So far we’ve explored why we write. And we’re willing to write even if no one will ever read it, Soli Deo Gloria. All that’s left is to let God call the shots from here. I’m about to…

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