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  • Where to find my more recent articles

    I have moved my writing over to Substack. Thank you for reading! I would be delighted to see you support my work by subscribing to my Substack blog, Another View. Read more

  • How to avoid the post-Christmas blues

    I am taking up Jeff Goins’ suggestion to write about post-Christmas blues (see Goinswriter.com). Rather than having to overcome the blues, I prefer to anticipate and avoid the post-Christmas blues altogether. Here are some things I do. 1. I look at Christmas as a season, not a day. Throughout the month of December I plan Read more

  • 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 than how they write.” Naturally this Read more

  • 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 I suppose that is a Read more

  • 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. Read more

  • 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 he decided to self publish. Read more

  • 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 of the colors and the Read more

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