Category: Writing Life

  • Five Steps to Revitalizing Your Writing Creativity

    By Cindy Sproles, @CindyDevoted It happens. Sometimes the words simply dry up. It’s not writer’s block. You have ideas. There are sentences that hit the page – but when they say nothing . . . when words just don’t flow as they should. What then? Writers are abundantly creative and…

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  • You Know You’re a Writer When You Procrastinate by…

    by Lynn H. Blackburn, @LynnHBlackburn November is National Novel Writing Month. Thousands of writers all over the world have determined to write 50K words in thirty days. There are pros and cons to NaNoWriMo, but one very definite “pro” is that it demands you cease all forms of procrastination and…

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  • Defining Creative Success

    By Lindsey Brackett, @lindsbrac I majored in theater. Actually, I majored in Interdisciplinary Studies, which is a fancy way of saying I couldn’t make up my mind between theater, English, and education. So I studied all three and called it a secondary drama teacher’s major. I’ve never taught high school…

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  • Writing Through Tragedy

    By Lucinda Secrest McDowell, @LucindaSMcDowel   Will we ever get used to hearing that there has been a mass murder of innocent people? That a hurricane has utterly destroyed an entire town or island? That in some utterly unimaginable way evil has been perpetrated on God’s creation? I hope not.…

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  • Does Your Writing Resemble Flabby Arms?

    By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills While contemplating my next writing project, I took a critical look at myself, and I didn’t like what the mirror revealed. I had flabby arms. Some of you call these bat wings or fly-zones. I refer to them as dangling participles, nothing I want on me…

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  • When the Writing Gets Tough, Just Keep Pedaling.

    by Lynn H. Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn A few summers ago, our youngest son decided he was ready to try riding his bike without the training wheels. My husband removed the training wheels and we wrapped him in bubble wrap secured his helmet on his head and found some knee and elbow pads…

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