Category: courage
The world is a noisy place, and sometimes it is easy to find yourself and your dreams lost within the whirlwind, unable to find your way. At those moments, it is simplest to just give up, surrendering the better part of…
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Category: courage, writing
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As a writer, it is my job to imagine the worst scenarios imaginable, and depending upon the type of genre I am delving into, it is my solemn duty to do my best to pry into the darkest aspect of my…
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Category: courage, death, fear, Food For Thought, future, H.L. Stephens, HL Stephens, hope, writing
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Ben and Jerry’s has the most amazing flavor of ice cream called Chubby Hubby. It is a single pint of decadent saturate-your-sorrows in 35 grams of sinful artery-clogging saturated fat and it’s-probably-better-if-you-don’t-read-the-rest-of-the-nutritional-information yum-inny goodness. For several years, it was my…
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Category: Adventures in Querying, agents, courage, discouragement, Food For Thought, H.L. Stephens, HL Stephens, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indie, inspiration, inspire, lonely art, publish, publishing, query letters, writing
Some words come easy to us. Words of tenderness for a loved one. Colorful metaphors. The proper order of terms for the grande triple mocha latte flavored coffee you order every day at the local Starbucks. But there are also…
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We’ve all had that dream. No, I am not talking about the dirty bathroom dream where all of the stalls make the use of an outhouse at the yearly fair seem like a delightful prospect. Nor am I referring to…
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Category: Adventures in Querying, agents, courage, discouragement, fear, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indie, inspiration, inspire, lonely art, mistakes, publish, publishing, query letters, triumph, writing
I thought when I saw puberty and all its trappings disappear into the rear view mirror of adulthood, I would somehow gain a greater sense of patience and a zen-like ability to wait for the things that truly mattered. As…
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Since my levels of public humiliation know no bounds, I have decided to share some of my many adventures in sending out the dreaded query letter. There are enough self-help blogs out there to tell you the right way of…
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Category: Adventures in Querying, agents, courage, discouragement, fear, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, mistakes, publish, publishing, query letters, writing
There is nothing quite so appealing to a writer as the thought of being published. It is after all what most of us strive for. Few of us write with the plan of hiding our work away so that no…
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There is beauty in silence, or so I have always believed. I never knew snow made noise when it fell until the unending thrum of our electronic world stopped abruptly one harsh winter morning. It was a heavy wet snow…
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There is a saying that behind every myth or legend is a grain of truth; no matter how small the grain may be. The same may be said for every story conceived by the heart of man. Somewhere between the layers…
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