Feel like you want to give up on your writing? Don’t think you’re good enough? Well, I hope by the end of this blog post you’ll be encouraged and inspired to keep going! Crystal Paine once said,“You are enough exactly as you are. The world needs your gift and the world needs your story.” …
Author Archives: Wendy Parker
All that wasted time
Do you ever sit and think about all that wasted time? All those hours and hours of putting one word in front of the other, only to fill notebook after notebook with forgotten thoughts and promises. Words that nobody else will hear read or see. Words that felt so hopeful and important at the time …
Because of You: Absolute Transparency
To become good writers, we need absolute transparency if we are to reach people with our words. Otherwise, we have no business poking our noses into other people’s affairs. Because of you, people can either be drawn to Jesus or away from Him. It’s a big responsibly, one I hope we don’t take lightly. The …
The Ripple Effect: Shaping the River into Words.
“My heart bursts its banks, spilling beauty and goodness. I pour it out in a poem to the king, shaping the river into words.” Psalm 45:1 (MSG) Words, words, words they are everywhere and as writers’ words shape what we want to communicate to other people, like a river bending and flowing words come from …
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You Had The Power All Along
I remember sitting glued to the television set when I was a kid watching The Wizard of Oz. The moment when Dorothy is told by Glenda, the good witch, that she’s had the power all along to go back home and all Dorothy needed to do was to click together the heels of her ruby …
Give it, Give it all, Give it now.
Cautious, compliant writing is not only boring to read it’s boring to write. Our job as writers is to stimulate and engage our readers to not only believe what we’ve written, but to persuade them to think differently. In Annie Dillard’s book, The writing life, she’s says this, “One of the things I know …
Don’t Die With The Music In You
Listen up, peeps! Don’t die with the music in you. Whatever is in the deep crevasses of your imagination, don’t ever think nobody is interested in the “music” in you. You need to tell yourself that you have just as much writing ability as the next person. Sure, the other writer plays a different tune, …
In the Moment: How your backstory helps grow your faith.
As writers, we love to think up a good backstory to a character we’ve created. We know that without a compelling backstory our characters feel and read like cardboard cutouts on the page. But what about your own life? What if you’re trying to hide your backstory from others so they don’t see your broken …
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Shooting Arrows from my Archer Chair
I recently purchased a new office chair from my favourite stationery store. Mind you, I only went in for ink cartridges, but somehow in my excitement of seeing all those pens and notebooks, I became so delirious that I am now the proud owner of an archer chair. I know, I couldn’t believe that they …
Containment Lines – Confidence to step into your calling
When a bushfire starts the job of a fireman is to contain and control the blaze with containment lines. Eventually the fire will run out of fuel or finally be snuffed out by a change in weather conditions. That’s when containment lines are good. But what if you feel restricted and confined by the containment …
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