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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 »

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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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7 Ways Your Characters Might Be Weak (And 11 Ways to Fix Them!)

Posted in My Books, Myers-Briggs Typology, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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