Get Out Your House: 1 Key to Successful Steady Writing

If you are having trouble meeting your daily writing goal, I suggest you leave your home. I am a mom, who because of my disability need to stay home. However, when I have writer deadlines being home makes it very hard. SO I thought what about other working writers? I'm sure you are bombarding by relatives wanting you to chauffeur them everywhere, your daughter's school needing you to volunteer, or your writer friends wanting you to read every though that comes out of their head, then there's laundry, lunch, dinner, shopping, cleaning and homework. Here are a few laces I have found that are becoming my writing home away from home. This week I will be searching for these places, since I am new to this town.

1. Your public library
   
2. a neighborhood coffee shop
3. your church narthex-always a bench there
4. the mall foodcourt
5. Barnes and Noble
6. Ingles Grocers Book section. They have a little reading nook in there.
   

any other place?

Does Your Writing Life Need a Resurrection?

Last week my computer crashed. Seven years of magazine articles, book reviews, critical essays, short stories and novels gone. My computer was old, too old for a recordable CD drive, too old to remove everything, and too expensive to store properly. My James told me not to worry. He would slave my hard drive and retrieve my files for me on his days off. But I have a secret. Don’t tell a soul. When that computer crashed a huge burden lifted from me. I felt free.

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Can Christian Communicate Well?

"Communicating is one of the most difficult things that we[Christians] do. So much of the reason why books like Strobel's is necessary is because Christians haven't explained themselves well in the first place. If Christians want to be respected into the future, they are going to have to be able to start with themes like those in this book and push forward quickly, showing that their understanding is not shallow. The stakes are high."
-Anthony Horvath's Review of Lee Strobel's The Case for the Real Jesus

Question: Do you agree? Should this issue also relate to the Christian fiction author?

Do You Write Outside of Your Denomination?

One of my pet peeves when reviewing an inspirational title is denominational legalese. Mind you I have edited a few local pastor's books with that slant. But their books weren't built for a national audience, but for their congregation, which makes it okay. But when you have written a book for a national platform shouldn't the book be universal? And if the answer is yes, then what topics in our spiritual canon could we use? Which ones we should not?

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