100 Gifts Week – Of salad bars and sunny days

by | Nov 22, 2011 | Writing

This week, I’m focusing on a lot of things that I’m thankful for. Please, in the comments, share even the smallest gifts that you’ve noticed today. caffeine spell check salad bars space heaters cherry coke zero a perfect haircut new books in the mail...

100 Gifts Week – Of writing pens and journals

by | Nov 21, 2011 | Writing

This week, I want to focus on a lot of things that I’m thankful for. I’ve kept a (fairly) regular gifts journal ever since my friend, Caitlin Muir, began doing her Thankful Thursday posts in the style of Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand Gifts. If you...

Confession about being content and grateful

by | Nov 18, 2011 | Writing

I have to be completely honest – I’m an overacheiver. A perfectionist. I constantly want more. So this year one of my main goals was to drive more traffic to my blog and get more comments and interactions. I really haven’t gotten much more –...

Overcoming my “quiet time” misconceptions

by | Nov 17, 2011 | Writing

For months now, I’ve been longing for a day where I could break away, invade a little coffee shop, write, journal and pray. Ideal quiet time to listen to God and understand what He wants from me. For months now, it hasn’t happened. Quite frankly, I...

What’s in a {character} name?

by | Nov 15, 2011 | Writing

What’s in a name? As I’ve come to learn. A lot. The enough-to-stop-my-scenes-from-moving-forward-because-I-don’t-have-the-right-name sort of “a lot.” For this year’s NaNoWriMo I’ve resurrected an old manuscript that I had...

NaNoWriMo 2011 Progress Report

by | Nov 14, 2011 | Writing

I’m happy to report that I’d give myself around a B or B- for this year’s National Novel Writing Month – a challenge where one must complete 50,000 words in 30 days. The idea is to keep a pace of 1,667 words a day, but I have certainly lagged...