Mind Over Matter: Starting off the New Year Right!
It’s a new year! Cue the confetti! Wait! What’s that? Feeling a little shy to enter the new year? I…
Category: Encouragement
One Person’s Hope May Depend on Your Investment of Kindness
Some of my most intimate friendships formed while attending conferences for writers. In fact, if not for the selfless investment…
The Value of a Heart Set Right
If I were going to run a long race, I’d have an idea of what it would take. It would…
Should you keep writing if no one is reading?
I spent hours crafting what I thought was the perfect blog post. I wrote, rewrote, took some time and wrote…
Finding Your “Get Up and Go” When It Has Gotten Up and Gone
Climbing out of bed, I snuck quietly to “the spot.” It is my favorite place to write — a cushy…
Learning to Approach Your Writing Goals With Open Hands
The New Year is almost here, and many of us are setting goals to ensure 2022 is our best year…
Compelled by the Savior
By the glow of your computer, you may wonder what this writing life is worth. These heavy days of unbelief…
Why We Can Be Thankful for the Waiting in Our Writing Journey
I have always admired cypresses. Their shape, like a finger reaching to the sky, resonates with the audacity of the…
Six Steps to Get Out of a Writing Rut
We’ve all been there at some point in our writing life. A writing deadline looms before us, and when we…
Feeling Inadequate? God Will Give the Increase
Growing up, I loathed Language Arts. Conjunctions, prepositions, adjectives and all the like were dispiriting topics for my mind to…
