Inspiration
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Stumbled across this video of an amazing tiny house called the Escher. If my main character in “Big Love,” Berly Charles, lived in a tiny house it would be something like this.
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This may seem counter-intuitive, but here it is: You can improve your writing by taking time off to not write. Those of you who are jumping up and down right now because you think you’ve just found a new excuse for your lack of writing this week, this month, this year—“Hey! I’m on a writing
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Facing a crossroads at the moment—what step to take next and all that. I’m not all angsty over it, but I have been thinking a lot about the late Donna Summer lately, as a result. Donna Summer? The Queen of Disco? First of all, thinking about Donna Summer is not new for me. I’ve had
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Sometimes I think my idea well has run dry. The plots I dredge up are so spare they couldn’t even flesh out a flash fiction story. Can you relate? Usually what this means is I need to switch from “creative” mode to “ingestion” mode—I need more raw material to draw from. Some writers can create
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“At the root of what makes us good, just, and decent, is a recognition that we owe a debt to those who have gone before us.” –Chuck Colson, Watergate figure who emerged from the country’s worst political scandal a vocal Christian leader and a champion for prison ministry, spent the last years of his life
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I have failed many times. Still do. In fact, I may be in the middle of one of the biggest failures of my life. And what am I facing? A lack of belief that I can succeed. What I’m doing I believe (today anyway) is what God has called me to do. But it doesn’t
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“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately, I am inspired at 9 o’clock every morning.” — William Faulkner, (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer, Nobel Prize laureate, and Pulitzer Prize winning author. Such a key principle it hardly needs unpacking. Yet, finding and holding on to that kind of
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