Category: Writer’s Life

  • Delight for the Takety-Take-Taking

    by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I feel you should know that if you hand me a tennis racket, it’s already a pretend guitar. And though I’m not a hard-rocker, my pretend guitar only plays imaginary hard rock. No matter how incongruent that looks on me, I will play it. With eyes-closed and…

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  • You Have A Story To Write

    by Diane Holmes Within you, I’m sure you have a good story to tell. You’ve probably heard this dozens of times. I know I have heard it often. But you wonder – where do I start. Just look around you, and I’m sure a story comes to mind. This story…

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  • Writer, There is Power in the Pause

    By Maureen Miller You love them too much.  That’s what was written in red at the top of my 11th grade advanced literature assignment, with a circle and an arrow indicating the object of Mr. Fisher’s remark. Commas—the punctuation used to separate words in a series, join independent clauses –were,…

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  • Writers Need Rest to Revive Their Creativity

    By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted “I’m tired.” These words eased from the lips of an author who sometimes publishes five books yearly. She was tired. It wasn’t like she should be. She’s successfully published – for over eighteen years. Multiply that by four or five books a year, and suddenly you…

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  • Self-care for Writers

    By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin Sometimes during my day, I will take a few minutes and watch some YouTube or Tik Tok videos. Whenever I watch, I make sure to limit it so I don’t fall down a rabbit hole and lose a lot of time. One day I stumbled on…

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  • When You’re Stuck for Blogging Topics, Think Outside the Box

    @AlyciaMorales Coming up with blogging topics on a regular basis can be difficult, even for those of us who are passionate about our chosen blog theme, whether it be writing, DIY, cooking, etc. Some days we just sit and stare at the screen, wondering what to post about. [tweet_box design="default"…

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