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How to Murder Your Creative Muse In 5 Easy Steps

Posted in Creativity and the Arts, Encouragement, For Your Amusement, Inspiration, Writing on March 29, 2015 | 1 Comment »

1.  Don’t spend time with her.  If you have plans to get together, procrastinate until she gives up for the night.  Spend your time on social media or YouTube instead!  Best way to send her running, right there. 2. Fixate on doing it the right way every time, with everything.  Correct the muse at every […]

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Simmer Starters – March 27, 2015

Posted in Encouragement, Simmer Starters, Writing on March 26, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Happy Last Friday of March!  I can’t wait for April…it’s when New England starts to come alive again, and I celebrate my birthday, and this year one of my best friends in the whole wide world is coming to visit me!  April will be a good month. Here are the Simmer Starters for this week… […]

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5 Things I Want Aspiring Young Authors to Know

Posted in Creativity and the Arts, Encouragement, Inspiration, Literature, Publishing, Writing on February 17, 2015 | 7 Comments »

This post is for the young writers of the world! And I admit it – technically I’m still a “young writer” myself.  I’m not even a quarter of a century old yet!  😛  But I’m thinking specifically of the teen and preteen writers among us. Guys, I’ve been where you are now.  It was one […]

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What God and Geeks Have in Common

Posted in Christian Living, Creativity and the Arts, Encouragement, Fandoms and Geekery, Inspiration, Literature, Musings, My Books, My Life, Preaching to Myself, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 26, 2015 | 11 Comments »

As a writer, I sometimes fall into “geek-out mode” about my own book.  As in, “it rivals the geekery I had about Lord of the Rings during my teenage years.”  That kind of geek mode. I think about it all day.  My characters are constantly on my mind.  I am going squeeee! over random details that nobody […]

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Confessions of a Pathetic Weakling – God’s Grace at the End of my Rope

Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement, Inspiration, Motherhood, My Life, Preaching to Myself on November 22, 2014 | 4 Comments »

One day a couple of months ago, if you had walked into my home in the mid-morning, you would have found this scene: Mom dozing off on the couch, sick and dizzy with some unexplainable bug on top of my morning sickness. Toddlers breaking into the upstairs bathroom. Baby woken in the next room by […]

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