@LucindaSMcDowel Summertime and the season for….. writers conferences, book conventions and intense writing sojourns! I have discovered that each time I return to an annual event, it is helpful to use it as an intentional time of evaluation and focus. Some of us have just finished up a fabulous time…

@LucindaSMcDowel I think about words a lot. Because I’m an author and speaker, you might say words are my business – thus no surprise my ministry is called “Encouraging Words.” But this week there are at least three good reasons I’m thinking especially about Words: I’ve just sent the edits…

@LucindaSMcDowel Katherine was a human computer. A black woman in the mid-century America NASA space program. Among other responsibilities, she calculated the trajectories for both the Mercury and Apollo missions. But no one knew about her work. Until the recent book and movie “Hidden Figures”revealed the true story of the…

@LucindaSMcDowel All Jesus did that day was tell stories—a long storytelling afternoon. His storytelling fulfilled the prophecy: I will open my mouth and tell stories; I will bring out into the open things hidden since the world’s first day. Matthew 13.34-35 MSG “Daddy, please tell us a story!” we begged. We…

Have you been waiting all year for that agent, that book contract, that scholarship to a writers’ conference, that sign that you are indeed on point in your writing and speaking journey? I know it seems like forever before a break comes, and so very easy to lose heart. But…

by Lucinda Secrest McDowell @LucindaSMcDowel “So what?” Unfortunately, that may be just the response when you say you want to write a memoir. Why do you do it anyway? To communicate a true story. Your story. Or at least part of it. For a long time, the only people writing…