Author: tinafriesen

  • Finally – Something helpful about finding your voice

    Thank you Jeff Goins! In his article, What You Write About Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think, he writes “Most writers are concerned with the wrong thing. They have a simple, misguided belief that holds them back from creating….They mistakenly believe that what they write about is more important…

  • More on voice

    Does anyone else have this problem? I find myself all over the place when it comes to writing. Today I wrote an article on True Confidence. Day before yesterday I wrote a short story. I seem to be doing anything but editing my novel. Yes, I am still writing, and…

  • My Christmas gift to you

    Yes, I have done it. I have published my most recent short story on my website. Go to the page Christmas Gift: Short Story. Enjoy. And give me a review if you like.

  • Self-published books as Christmas presents?

    Did you know that The Shack started out being self-published? Read about it in http://www.christianwritingtoday.com/the-shack-self-published-to-15-million-copies-sold/. Apparently the author,William Paul Young, gave away fifteen photo copies of the book as Christmas gifts. His readers loved the story and passed it on. But he could not find a publisher who was interested in his work, so…

  • Paint what you see

    Yesterday I saw the sky, strikingly blue, behind a row of dark evergreens and a bright yellow-orange poplar. As usual, I wanted to imprint the scene in my memory and paint it. There is something inside me that desires to capture and hold beauty. As I looked at the intensity…

  • Finding focus

    In recent weeks I have had an obsession with getting my house organized. I feel I need to do this so that I can focus. This has extended to cleaning up my blogs as well. I can relate to the article, Lifestyles of the (semi)Disconnected by Angela Parker on her site, theunconventionalhousewife.com. To…

  • Relaxing in the sun

    I just spent six days lounging by a pool in the Arizona sun. One of my sisters rented a house in Phoenix and invited me and our two other sisters to stay with her. All of my family live in central Canada and I live on the West Coast, so it…

  • Give me the evidence

    I recently read an article, yet another claim to a cancer cure. It stated that this product was 10,000 times more effective than chemo. That statement alone should clue you in. It claims that pharmaceutical companies could not come up with a synthetic version so they covered up the evidence…

  • My writing journey

    This is “about me.” Apparently people want to know a little about me, besides the thoughts I put on my “About” page. When I was about ten years old I received a diary. I didn’t put many entries in it, but it was where my writing habit began. Around the…

  • Editing – it’s happening

    I just had to share that I started editing my novel yesterday and it went well. I rounded out a scene. I did some research. I read up on plot versus character and I mapped out my plot on a large sheet of sketching paper. Mapping out my plot was…