So, to follow-up after that peaceful, grateful post about Rest, I realized it’s been a long time since I made a list of the stuff I’m engaged in. When it turned out to be seven distinct items, and I realized it was Friday, I knew I needed to jump back Read more »
Category Archives: Advice
Teaching Writing to Children
So I’ve had two moms in the last month ask me (as a homeschooling mom and a writer), how is it I teach my children to write. I’ll get back to you on that in 15 years or so. When I actually know how it is they learned. In the Read more »
You know what’s delicious?
Going through a list of personal interests/roles/priorities (this resource was what prompted the inventory) and firming which ones are just for me. All mine. Only and completely for my own enjoyment of life, and nothing to do with what anybody else thinks. This is a big deal because it means Read more »
What if this isn’t something you get over?
What if this is something God’s giving you to wrestle with your whole life? Here is, to me, the biggest part of Christian community: individuals who are safe (as opposed to, you know, unsafe.), and have earned the right to be heard. I know this woman loves me. She genuinely Read more »
God Designed Religion for Us.
Life itself is a series of problems that often act as obstacles to our search for significance… Our fulfillment in this life depends not on our skills to avoid life’s problems, but on our ability to apply God’s specific solutions to those problems. Robert S. McGee in The Search for Read more »
Famous Folks’ Writing Advice
There’s a lovely list of advice making the Twitter circuit now. Here are my favorites– not all are original, but all I want to be able to return to. Diana Athill You don’t always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or Read more »
So Many New Things
New things to be, to do, to try. Reminders of things I’m not, I can’t, or am afraid of. I mentioned a while back that my world has changed significantly in the last 6 months. Isn’t it interesting (she said with an eye-roll) that no matter how much changes, there Read more »
Where to Start Cutting Words From Your Novel
The conversion of this blog post and this novel was the motivation for my recent purge of words. The impressively quick process of cutting gives me great hope and excitement that (once I’ve reviewed my second half well enough to cut it similarly mercilessly) I’ll be in completely “normal” teritory Read more »
Yes, I Am No Extrovert.
I am in an exhausted daze today. Not the lack-of-sleep kind, either. I am simply drained. It’s been so long since this happened that I was digging for what I used to explain it in the past. There is a sine wave theory that I used to subscribe to, that Read more »
Compiled Mom Advice
When the poignancy of my “last” baby phase finally reached me it was nothing like I’d imagined. No craving a baby to hold, no wishing for more of my own. Mostly, I’m pathetically disappointed that my acquired skills in that area are now obsolete. Isn’t that sad? Anyway, just because Read more »
