Category: writing
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Getting Ready for Writer’s Conference 2015
Name: Jill Johnston Location: Schertz, TX What you write/tagline/trademark: Speculative & Inspirational / Grace & Peace / “God writes His story on every heart, if we only pause to read it.” Place in the book world: Unpublished. Currently working on a YA Time Trilogy and a fantasy trilogy Chronicles of Or. On a scale of hugger to 10-foot-pole, please rate…
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Treat every piece as if it’s under contract
A few weekends ago I attended the local ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) chapter meeting. Being the middle of summer, a small crowd was in attendance. Toward the end of the meeting, after discussing the few agenda items we needed to cover, our president, Allison Pittman, decided to revisit a comment made earlier in the meeting. A…
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Those who have gone before
An ancient writer once penned the thought that since we are surrounded by all those who have gone before, an enormous cloud of witnesses, we should strip off everything that slows us down or holds us back, especially whatever easily trips us up. And we should run with endurance the particular race our Creator has made us for and has set before us.…
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The road not taken
The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the…
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