Historically, September is one of my favorite months. While many see it as the final approach to the end of a year (and pumpkin pie spice everything), I tend to look at it as a beginning. Autumn is a season where I begin dreaming about the possibilities for the year ahead. It’s also a time…
Author: Jennifer Lindsay
It’s not uncommon to hear readers say they prefer protagonists who are “strong and capable” to protagonists that are “weak and indecisive.” Which is completely understandable. After all, who wants to slog through 300 pages of a character sitting on a log complaining about their lot in life? But if you were to ask them…
It takes a rare form of courage to choose to pursue your creative calling. Especially if you’re surrounded by voices telling you that you should focus your energies on the things that guarantee future stability, such as retirement, investments, and careers in high-paying companies. Those are all good things, but if the past few months…
“There once was a boy named Philly the Kid, and history’s full of the things that he did.” These are the first two lines of a poem I wrote for my first creative writing class in college. At the time, I didn’t have much experience with poetry beyond the poems I’d memorized in grade school….
It’s easy to hold myself to a standard that isn’t always reasonable and so I’ve learned to pace myself and ask for help when I need it, because the last thing I want is for my passion to become a burden.
When things aren’t coming together in the manner or the timing we’d hoped, remember that the One who started this work in our lives will also complete it in His perfect time.
Setting our aim high and falling short still puts us closer to our ultimate goal than continually setting the bar at a level where there is little chance of failure.
Want to know how you view yourself? Take a look at the words you write!
When we commit our plans to the Lord, He affirms them or redirects them so that we can be successful in the work He’s created us to do.
As writers, we can’t shy away from the hard things. They’re part of the human experience and, as hard is it is to admit sometimes, some of the most beautiful things in life spring from some of the meanest and dirtiest experiences of life.