Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Writing Tips”
NOTE: For this month, practical writing tips lead the charge! Our general today is author, Mary A. Felkins, who writes inspirational fiction and nonfiction. I met her through author Kathleen Bailey; they have published their books with Pelican Book Group. I asked Mary to guest blog since I appreciated her insightful comments on the posts. And she’s generously giving away …
God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on, and lead me back to your glorious everlasting ways – the path that brings …
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.” Brene Brown. Note: I thought I had published this blog on March 2nd but somehow I never went from Draft to Published. So, I kept writing the next blog and publishing them without sharing this one. Guess why March 9th’s How to Quiet the Critics blog that started with, “Did anyone …
“Whoever gives an honest answer kisses the lips” Proverbs 24:26 ESV. Ever received a review, critique, or feedback that stung, but you told yourself, “It didn’t? And you don’t care.” Yet, day after day, the critique hangs around like a squatter living in your rental property. And no matter how hard you try to kick the squatter out, they won’t …
Did anyone conduct last week’s exercise? Here, I challenged you to share with someone, what you fear the most as a writer. Then journal how you felt before you shared, while you shared, and after you shared. I conducted this exercise on last Tuesday by sharing on Facebook Live. After I finished, I journaled what I felt before I conducted …
Today, I’m nestled in my upstairs office, thankful for electricity. It’s -7 here, historical lows for us in the south. On the writing front, I missed my Feb. 15th beta reader deadline. I know, I’m unhappy about it. But I did manage to submit edits to an editing project I’m a part of, so now that I’ve met that obligation, …
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” – John Steinbeck. Well, there you go. 2020 has been a lesson in, …
February blogging is focused on writing tips. And I’m back to blogging once a week (thankfully, I have two guest blogs-yea!). If you’ve followed my writing journey in January, I thought it fitting to give you an update especially since I vowed to be accountable to you. My goals and the deadline. Work on my fiction for two hours a day, …
How are you doing? Specifically on your writing goals? Have you made any? Or considered sharing your story (even in a different format such as blogging, vlogging, on social?) I’m like a little child playing in the backyard from morning to dusk and doesn’t want to come inside for dinner. I’m enjoying writing, crafting, and reading, assimilating myself into the …
Happy New Year! My husband and I are back in Tulsa, after spending the holidays in northern Michigan with family. My husband, a native of Oklahoma, was like a little kid because he got to experience a white Christmas! We went sledding, snowmobiling, and snowshoeing. We tapped into our inner child as we sled down the snow hills. I laughed …
