Hard to believe another year has come and gone. This year will mark the third year of this blog and my “serious” writing career. This year marks my fourth year of marriage and fourth year in my lovely house. I know many people who spend time meditating and considering what “word” best defines their focus in the coming year. Sometime that word comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes it comes in a quiet moment. For me, my word for 2012 has been brewing for some time. Discipline. 2011 was a year of discovery. I learned more about myself, my family, my passions and my goals in life. In order...
A hard look at 2011 goals and 2012 dreams
I posted this right at the beginning of 2011: ….For 2011: 1. Polish and prepare Lillie Among Thorns for submission to publishers (as of Dec. 30, 2011 – check!) 2. Attend two major writing conferences (as of Dec. 30, 2011 – one big with three small one-day conferences!) 3. Redesign my website (just a little facelift, ideally) (as of Dec. 30, 2011 – check!) 4. Continue blogging 3 times a week and increase depth of content (as of Dec. 30, 2011 – check!) 5. Complete another novel – sequel? new series? details to be determined. (as of Dec. 30, 2011 – check!) 6. Learn more, read more, critique more, blog more – grow overall...
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from me to you! Hopefully you’re not here reading blogs when you should be out enjoying the holiday season and family and friends! 😉
Quitter – and what it meant to me
Originally posted 5/20/11. I could probably blog about Jon Acuff’s book “Quitter: Closing the gap between your day job and your dream job” for a solid month. The basis of the book “Quitter” is finding a way to reach your day job, without sacrificing financial security or blindly diving into something that will leave you and your family ruined. Jon Acuff has the experience – he went through eight jobs in eight years and is now able to merge his dreams and day job. Don’t Quit…not yet The very first chapter is “Don’t Quit Your Day Job.” This jolted me a bit, as I was expecting the book “Quitter” to...
Are you living a good story?
Originally posted 5/4/11 (my 25th birthday!) While writing a script based on his memoir, Blue Like Jazz, author Donald Miller took a good hard look at his life and the story he was living. If only we all had moments like this to make us look at our lives the same way. Fortunately, Miller wrote “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” and shares his experiences and forces you to consider: What story are you living? Are you living a good story? A boring story? “If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.” – Donald Miller It...