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.
Category: Encouragement
Is there a fear holding you back professionally, physically, or psychologically? What’s one thing you can do today to take a step toward it and so that you can eventually move past it?
Just before my class graduated from college, one of my writing professors told us the minute we stop learning is the minute we stop growing and the moment when we begin falling behind. While this can be said about any aspect of our lives, I’ve certainly seen the truth of it in the publishing world….
The last time I read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was in college (though it wasn’t a class-assigned reading). My current personal WIP has me researching different accounts of Merlin, and I’d forgotten just how badly King Arthur and his mentor were skewered by Mr. Twain. The pictured quote actually comes from the…
Who am I, Lord, that I should be so blessed by Your imagination? The words I pen today can’t begin to capture an iota of the detail you’ve woven into even the smallest of molecules. And yet, how can I not try?
It’s so much easier for me to take those difficult steps of faith when I remember that You are right here beside me. There are so many questions in this life. So much uncertainty. And I wonder sometimes, did I hear You correctly?
Lord, It’s so easy to get distracted when I’m constantly bombarded with all the “how-to’s” of the writing world. I can have the greatest author platform, be represented by the world’s best agent, perfect the art of the query, and publish book after book, but it will do me little good in the measure of…
If you experience situational anxiety in your writing, now may be the best time to look at where your feet are planted. Are you trying to control every aspect and build your writing career on the shifting sands of your own foundation, or are you looking to God to lay the blocks for you to build upon, with Him as your guide?
What if the hard things you’re facing in this moment could be used to bring hope and healing to someone who is struggling with those feelings just as much—or more than—you?
As co-creators, it’s vital that we work collaboratively with the One who is able to see beyond the deceptions of our enemy and into the heart of who we were designed to be. When we go back to the beginning and continue to shore up the foundation of our personal relationship with the Author of All, we find that our writing becomes less about building a career and a name for ourselves and more about enjoying and using the gifts and the talents bequeathed to us.