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Jonah Vine

Traci Hilton — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:05:52 +0000

Jonah 4:6 Then the Lord provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was happy. Remember what happened to Jonah after he finally went to Nineveh? He sat back and rested under a vine that God gave him. And when that [...]

Writing Historicals: Immerse Yourself in the Details

Cara Putman — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:56:39 +0000

Tuesday Teachings from the archives: I’ve been going back through the wonderful content on Writer…Interrupted and wanted to share the relevant teaching from past posts! Hope you enjoy this new Tuesday feature!- Gina Three of my first four contracted books involve a step back in time to the days of World War Two. I may have [...]

Freelancing to Support My Fiction Habit

Gina Conroy — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:43:53 +0000

Before I became a novelist, I was a journalist. I wrote for my high school and college newspapers, rising in the ranks to news editor. After college I began my first novel, got married, had a baby and stopped writing. Then had three more babies. Unfortunately, I didn’t know I could write and raise children. [...]

Making the Most of the Minutes

Brandy Heineman — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:55:01 +0000

My greatest challenge in balancing writing time with household responsibilities is avoiding my own tendency toward the all-or-nothing approach. I’ll happily use every available hour to write – except those times when I studiously ignore my manuscript in favor of chores and errands. The problem is that total lack of progress in one priority [...]

Using Interruptions To Encourage and Inspire

Kaye Swain — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:34:57 +0000

Through God we shall do valiantly, And it is He who will tread down our adversaries. Psalm 60:12 Turning on my nightlight, I looked at my clock. Only 2:00 a.m.! I’d been laying here since 10:00 pm, unable to sleep! It was one of my rare and frustrating nights when sleep kept eluding me and [...]

Writing Historicals: Immerse Yourself in the Time Period

Cara Putman — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:43:24 +0000

Top Ten List for Writers

Cara Putman — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Patience. In abundance. Pressed down and overflowing. Everything takes time. And lots more time than you could imagine. So if you write, you’ll shake the doors of heaven begging for patience. What ifs. A writer takes a “what if” and crafts a story around it. Without a “what if” question, there would be no books, [...]

Do Aliens Exist?

Ed Gungor — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:08:52 +0000

Sadly, God’s people have a history of trying to straddle the fence between the kingdom of God and the world around us—we long to fit in and belong. Though it was forbidden, the ancient Israelites even paid tribute to the pagan gods to open the door for trade and political power. They didn’t want to [...]

Are You a Writing Tortise or Hare?

Gina Conroy — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:40:06 +0000

I’m revisiting an old question that I wrestled with a few years ago when trying to figure out why it was taking so long to get published. My thoughts then and now seems to ring true for me. How about you? I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter how fast I run this [...]

The Evolution of Distractions (and Wasted Time)

Tanya Dennis — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:37:31 +0000

My distractions have evolved many times over the course of my writing journey. At first they were obvious: toddlers. I had two kids under the age of two and clearly could not write while either were awake. This offered a crisply defined line between writing and everything else. Naptimes provided neatly packaged blocks of time [...]