I’m getting a little bored with 7 Quick Takes, so I thought I’d liven them up a little. Here is: Twenty Six Quick Takes: A To Z (And go visit Jen’s site too!) A is for Ariel. My oldest daughter. I love A names. But I don’t like all the kids in the family [...]
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Last night, it was my privilege to tape a seminar on writing with my friend Cindy Rushton for The Ultimate Writer’s Expo. The way that this is set up, while I am speaking (into my phone) listeners can phone in and ask questions or comment. One listener asked me, “How do I get started writing?” [...]
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I’m recording a seminar for the Ultimate Writer’s Expo. “All The Mistakes I’ve Made So Far As A Writer (And I’m Not Talking About Punctuation and Spelling). You can listen to it live here at 8 pm EST. Or, you can sign up for The Ultimate Writer’s Expo here. This is going to be a [...]
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Today seems a great day to say something that’s been on my heart for a while. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. Some of you will be shocked to know, that even though I grew up as a Christian, I was an adult before I got what this was all about. It’s at these times that I [...]
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I’m a little sensitive. You know the part in The Incredibles when Helen is flying the plane and it explodes and she grabs her children and they float down to the water? I have to leave the room at that point every time I watch the movie. I get all verklempt thinking about yanking one’s [...]
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I’ve only been to one writer’s conference and that was a lifetime ago, back before I was a mother. I remember that by the time I left, I was so encouraged! I was excited about my ideas! I wanted to conquer the world! Now you can go to a writer’s conference too, without even leaving [...]
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Every Thursday night, for the last six weeks or so, I’ve been going to church to join in on the discussion of Joyce Meyer’s Battlefield of the Mind book. This small group is the 6,542nd one I’ve been in since I became a Christian 22 years ago. In honor of that fact, I’ve decided that [...]
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Today I want to feature my new friend, Rachel! Not only is she a busy mom writer, but she, like me, has published her first e-book! She has a lovely website and has offered to share with us, in 10 minutes, how she makes time to write. (She’s also from New Zealand, which I think [...]
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Courtesy of Elaine, a faithful reader to this blog. (And Facebook, of course.) This is a Name Game, in which you create names using combinations of letters, words and other silly things. The name created matches a specific type of character. To make this into a free write exercise, take the names that you create [...]
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. . . . Than Finish My Current Writing Project 1. Watch The Biggest Loser, eat a tub of Butter Pecan ice cream and smirk at the irony of it all. 2. Patch the holes in the knees of my 7-year old’s jeans, all eight pair of them, but that would be an exercise in [...]
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Katharine Grubb is a successful homeschooling mother of five, bread baker, reluctant dish washer and part-time novelist. If she can find time in her busy day to write, so can you!