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How to Force a Submission from Your Challenges

How to Force a Submission from Your Challenges

by Joy | Jul 11, 2019 | authors, creativity, doubt and fear, dream of authorship, Indie Authors

Whatever we choose to do with our lives, we will face challenges, obstacles and roadblocks. These are the opponents in our cage.  We should long to do whatever we’ve chosen to the best of our ability, if it’s something we’re truly passionate about. Often the...
Why Podcast?

Why Podcast?

by Joy | Jun 6, 2019 | authors, creativity, podcasters, podcasting, podcasts, writing community

Podcaster—that’s a new title I’ve added to my resumé, and I’m pretty excited about it. This past Tuesday, the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast went live. Mea Smith and I co-host this weekly broadcast geared toward creative people who are seeking to take their passions and...
What Camping Can Teach About Writing

What Camping Can Teach About Writing

by Joy | Oct 18, 2018 | creativity, Editing, fantasy, fiction, goals, inspiration, writers, writing, writing process

This weekend, I got to do one of my favorite things. Camp. I got to thinking how similar camping and writing are, and what camping can teach about writing. My guess is, camping may just have some lessons for other endeavors you may pursue as well. Read on through and...
Creating Through Exhaustion

Creating Through Exhaustion

by Joy | Sep 6, 2018 | creativity, doubt and fear, inspiration, writers, writing process

Let’s face it. We live in a BUSY world. Some would proclaim it too busy (and I’m likely to agree). With all this busyness swirling around us, we often find ourselves worn out. Is it possible to continue creating through exhaustion? It is possible—with...
To Fear or Not to Fear: World-building

To Fear or Not to Fear: World-building

by Joy | Mar 22, 2018 | C.S. Lewis, creativity, doubt and fear, genre, goals, Indie Authors, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, world-building, writing process

Fantasy—the one genre I swore I would never, no how, no way write. Guess what I’m writing? In order to write fantasy, I have to do something incredibly more difficult than piecing words together to make a book; it’s called world-building. This is the third...
To Fear or Not to Fear: Creativity Amidst Chaos

To Fear or Not to Fear: Creativity Amidst Chaos

by Joy | Mar 15, 2018 | creativity, doubt and fear, dream of authorship, goals, J.R.R. Tolkien, writer mom

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel like I’m walking through life on a narrow path between towering mountains of dirty dishes and clothes, unpaid bills, messy floors and to-do lists longer than the Amazon River. Plus, there’s the...
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