Favorite links from the past week! Enjoy. Two Things to Tell Yourself in Temptation (ScribblePreach) – “Temptation is tricky. Just when you think you’ve got hold of it, it rears its ugly head….again, and again, and again.” How Each Myers-Briggs Type Responds to Finding a Spider in the Shower (BlondeRJ) – Some good, clean fun for the […]
Archive for January, 2015
Simmer Starters – January 30, 2015 (Special Feature: Flash Fiction!)
Posted in Christian Living, Creativity and the Arts, Flash Fiction, Simmer Starters, Writing on January 29, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Simmer Starters – Jan. 23, 2015
Posted in Creativity and the Arts, Inspiration, Simmer Starters, Writing on January 23, 2015 | 4 Comments »
Welcome to a new feature on the Simmering Mind! (Well, really more of a resurrected feature.) Every Friday I will post a collection of links that got me thinking or woke up my imagination that week. They might be related to writing, faith, science, sci-fi and fantasy, or fiction in general, and occasionally parenting or […]
Writing Updates – January 2015
Posted in My Books, My Life, Writing on January 20, 2015 | 6 Comments »
I didn’t have a post prepared for this week, so I thought I would give a brief update on what I’ve been doing lately with my writing. 🙂 Currently simmering: Story contest: My flash fiction entry in Speculative Faith’s story prompt contest made it to the final rounds!! I didn’t realize it until a friend posted […]
7 Ways Your Characters Might Be Weak (And 11 Ways to Fix Them!)
Posted in My Books, Myers-Briggs Typology, Writing, tagged books, characters, development, fiction, myers-briggs, reading, teen, TV, writers, writing on January 12, 2015 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been working on my science-fiction trilogy for almost ten years now. (Whew, it seems like an eternity!) I started writing it at fourteen years old, and often dreamed of being like Christopher Paolini and becoming a famous published teenager. Now, looking back, I am so, SO glad I didn’t get published back then! My story, my […]