365 Things I Believe: God Reigns
God promised that there would be times of trouble. But he also promised that he would be with us.
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Pull out the crayons and markers. You know you want to.
View ArticleWhat? And Give All This Up?
I discovered a great blog today through this awesome post: Input Deprivation Week: Forcing Action by Killing Information Addictions Because he says he’s addicted to information, Kyle is issuing the...
View ArticleWhen the ideas don’t stop
I’ve never really had a problem with insomnia like many of my friends who post in the middle of the night on Facebook. Well, except for the previously much discussed late-great-unpleasantness of the...
View ArticleWaiting for Inspiration
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. – Jack London I don’t know where London was when he said that. Perhaps in the wild. Sometimes, I crack myself up. It’s been a...
View ArticleHeigh ho, heigh ho
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King True story: I wish I’d read Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft years ago. I’m due for...
View ArticleWhere Do I Find My Inspiration?
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. – Louis L’Amour True story. That quote may be the only thing I’ve ever read written by Louis L’Amour. But I read...
View ArticleSometimes the ideas just hit me
The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head...
View ArticleFrom Whence Cometh My Writing Inspiration?
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 It’s true. I re-watched The Sound of Music last weekend,...
View ArticleWhat am I going to do with all of this…source material?
We are on day 129 of 15 days to slow the spread. Over the weekend, because it was too darned hot to even think about going outside, I spent some time organizing files. I cleaned out an assortment of...
View ArticleSometime I Just Don’t Want to Write
I went to bed thinking that perhaps there would be some insomnia inspired brilliance.
View ArticleHaunting Characters
I’ve been in the middle of writing a book or a story and suddenly I find that one of my characters has gone off on a tangent.
View ArticleObserve
I've spent the greater majority of the last two years sequestered in my home office.
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