Image by Jill Clardy via Flickr In online publishing there is an oft repeated mantra about writing for your readers. While it is true that you should write for your readers rather than search engines, there is a gaping hole in the advice. When you face the blank page to tell your story, the last [...]
Exploring the Heart of Writing
August 9, 2010 By 8 Comments
Image by Vanessa Pike-Russell via Flickr Last week, I read a post by Joanna Paterson at MidLife Journal on Facebook in which she distinguished writing with a capital “W “from writing. The phrase resonated with me and I found myself thinking of it, turning it over, and journaling about it. Joanna wrote: “…writing doesn’t need to [...]
Community, Inspiration and The Muse
June 21, 2010 By 26 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Today is the first official day of summer, an appropriate day to trade hard cover tomes of business and industry for deliciously just for fun paperbacks. This post is lovingly for all my writer friends who inspire and challenge me in every season. Grab your flip flops and come build sand castles [...]
The Gift of Written Language
January 19, 2010 By 9 Comments
Image via Wikipedia I attended a missions conference last week and the guest speaker was an Engineer serving as a Bible translator. As a lover of words and people, I was rapt with attention as he shared stories of both. To translate a language, you must have an alphabet, the building block of the written [...]
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