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Contest Winners
Memories Contest Joint Winner: “My Life Spared” by Pete Cruz
Twigs, leaves, and rocks pressed against my helmet’s cracked face shield. I lay face-down, my vision filled by a macro view of the ground. I […]
Critique Groups
How Writing Is Like Exercising
The cell phone alarm beeps me into consciousness at 5:20 am. Yes, it’s o-dark-thirty and I’m waking up to go to spin class. Why? That’s […]
Writing Tips
My Toaster Hates Me: Four Ways to Unstick Your Writing
I’m convinced my toaster hates me. I place soft, fluffy bread into its yawning mouth, and I get a blackened lump of coal in return. […]
Spiritual Life
Go, Stay, Give: A Call to Obedience
I love the quote by Jill Briscoe: “You go where you’re sent, and you stay where you’re put, and you give what you’ve got.” God […]
Writer's Journey
Power in the Pause
You love them too much. That’s what was written in red at the top of my 10th grade advanced literature assignment, with a circle […]
Conferences
Preparing for a Writer’s Conference
February 29, 2012
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Seventeen years ago I went to my first writers’ conference. I was a rookie. I had my proposal and a sample chapter – such as […]
Writer's Journey
Just Too Busy: Backstory
June 25, 2011
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When Joanne Kraft walked into an Inspire Christian Writers critique meeting a few years ago, she brought with her a two-page article about her family’s radical sabbatical and […]
Getting Published
Throw Your Spaghetti!
January 11, 2012
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Parents are known for their one-liners, and mine were no exception. “Do it once, do it right, then forget about it.” Wise words imprinted on […]
Writer's Journey
Police Work and Writers Have a Lot in Common
December 31, 2011
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For the past twenty years, I’ve worked as a 911 dispatcher. In the beginning of my career, I worked the graveyard shift at a busy […]
