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Life Coach: Be True to Your Heart
When you strip away all the tasks, to-do lists, self –inflicted responsibilities and living someone else’s dreams, you’ll find the beat of your own heart. I know you heard that beat or you wouldn’t pursue life as an author. At some particular moment in time, you and the desire of your soul were one. But then one kid gets sick halfway to soccer practice. As you turn around in heavy traffic, you mindlessly ask them why they couldn’t have become symptomatic before you buckled the twins in their car seats and chased Rover three blocks to put him back in the fence. But all is not lost. At least you’ll have some writing time. Well, at least until hubby calls to let you know he invited the boss to dinner… […]
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Featured Fiction Friday Presents: Patti Hill!
This year’s Frasier Contest has come to a close. The finalists and semi-finalists have been announced, and we are all eagerly awaiting the Pizza Party to find out who the winner is. In the mean time, lets meet one of the Judges that made it all possible: Patti Hill, with her new book Goodness and Mercy. Q: Patti, give us a tag line and a little blurb about your story. A: Mercy is heartache comforted, a truth whispered, a healing granted. And sometimes, mercy comes at the worst possible moment. At least, Lucy thinks so. After the death of her parents, sixteen-year-old Lucy Richter struggles to keep a promise to her father–to save what remains of her family. Lucy fails tragically but won’t allow her dwindling family to disappear. She […]
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The Declaration of Independence! Why does this document work? 247 years later? Because it was written with passion. Writing meaningful works requires passion. A level of belief in what you write. Even if I argue the “devil’s advocate” side of an issue in a story, I do it with what I believe is the conviction of the characters. Thomas Jefferson penned a document we should all study. And believe in! Without further ado… Happy Independence Day! When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to […]
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