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Love in Books: More Than All the Kissing

Love in Books: More Than All the Kissing

by Joy | Feb 13, 2020 | books, C.S. Lewis, characters, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, readers, reading

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “Love in Books”? Is it last summer’s hottest rom-com? Does a classic tale of unrequited love surface in your memory? Or, do you react with a giant “Ugh!”?  I get that last one. I’m not one to seek out romance in...
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...
Resolving to Make Better Goals

Resolving to Make Better Goals

by Joy | Jan 4, 2018 | dream of authorship, goals, J.R.R. Tolkien, writing process

A few years ago I swore off making resolutions. I got tired of making my list each New Year’s Eve and then disappointing myself a month or two later. After my initial “bah, humbug” attitude, I realized the problem was with my approach. Resolutions...
5 Steps to Choose My Next Story

5 Steps to Choose My Next Story

by Joy | Dec 28, 2017 | authors, books, creativity, doubt and fear, goals, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, writers, writing process

Let’s face it; time flies. 24 hours just aren’t enough to do all we desire. I find myself skittering after loose minutes like Scrat after his elusive nut. So, how do writers like me with so many story ideas and works in progress decide where to focus the...
I Found Inspiration in a Book

I Found Inspiration in a Book

by Joy | Sep 7, 2017 | biographies, C.S. Lewis, Inklings, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, logos, mythos, words, writers, writing

Have you ever found inspiration in a book? Have you ever picked up a book and been changed? Not just wowed or inspired or excited—I’ve had that happen many times. Just last November I got a page and a half into Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea and was so...
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