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Don’t Allow Your Writing Struggles to Become Your Identity
by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales While scrolling social media recently, I came across a very short statement. Don’t let your struggles become your identity. It stopped my scroll. Have you ever done that? Have you ever given your struggle so much power that you claimed it as part of who…
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To Know and Make Known
by Julie Zine Coleman @JulieZColeman That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death... Philippians 3:10 NASB My husband has many wonderful qualities. But the night I began to fall in love with him, something bigger captured…
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3 Ways to Brainstorm Ideas for Magazine Articles
By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites I never thought I would or could write for a magazine until I was asked to submit an article to a trade magazine. “What could I contribute?” I said. “Think about it and get back to me.” The editor said. I remembered an instructor at Blue…
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Don’t Be Afraid to Write Funny
by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Laughter is good medicine, my friends, and we laugh a lot in my family. Granted, usually we’re laughing because otherwise we’d be crying. Life has been a struggle for a long season, but rather than wallowing in much-deserved and certainly justified angst and exhaustion, we choose…
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How Do You Know What To Write?
by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel You stare at a blank page. Your scribbles are notes that you can’t sort out. You have journals you aren’t sure where to find what you started writing for a book someday. Does your organization of thoughts cause you to feel overwhelmed? I think one of…
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When You Feel Like Your Writing Isn’t Good Enough
by Maggie Wallem Rowe Tell me you haven’t experienced it, too. You attend that writers conference or watch a publishing awards ceremony online, and those unwanted thoughts arrive faster than flies on an apple pie: I’ll never be as good a writer as she is. Look at all those titles…
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