P.A.C.E. Your Writing Life
This week's COMPEL Blog post was written by Encouragement for Today writer Laura Bailey. "Writing is so much more than putting words on a page. I was so naive, having absolutely no idea about the amount of work...
Continue Reading The God Who Sees Me
I received the long text and read it slowly. Then I read it again. She accused me of saying things I never said. She assumed words I’d written on social media were about her when they weren’t. I sat...
Continue Reading How to Write in the In-Between
Today's blog post comes from Proverbs 31 Ministries' Promotional Copy Writer, Meghan Ryan. In October 2019, I moved to a new city where I didn’t know anyone. The transition was tough, and for the first several months, I...
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It’s time to call yourself a writer
I decided a few years back I wanted to run a marathon. I have never been particularly athletic, but I was determined, and over weeks and months of training runs of 13, 15 and 20 miles...
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Help For When You’re Struggling to Find the Words to Write
Today's blog post comes from Proverbs 31 Ministries' Content Coordinator for Lysa TerKeurst and author of Shiny Things: Mothering on Purpose in a World of Distractions, Amanda Bacon. These days we are living in are difficult...
Continue Reading Resting in God’s Peace During Anxious Times
Does anyone’s soul find it hard to stay at rest when life is uncertain? From one side of the globe to the other, in our current situation with the COVID-19 virus, none of us know exactly what will...
Continue Reading Faith to Move Forward in the Face of Rejection
By Abby McDonald, COMPEL Member and published author “Sometimes I wish God would just give me a writing on the wall. Things would be so much easier.” My friend’s eyes brimmed with tears as we sat...
Continue Reading CHALLENGE WINNER: Write to Remember
In May, COMPEL Training challenged our members to submit a compelling blog post that encourages and equips other writers with wisdom they have learned in their own writing journey. Today's blog post is one of five winners of...
Continue Reading A Simple Solution to Your Writing Hesitations (& Giveaway!)
Today we have a special guest post from Amy Carroll, author of the newly-released Exhale: Lose Who You’re Not. Love Who You Are. Live Your One Life Well. Amy’s a member of the Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker...
Continue Reading Three Tips to Writing Productively
You are working on a project, sort of. You are on the computer a lot. You’re writing words. Yet when Friday rolls around, you admit that another week went by and you didn’t write that proposal or query...
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