This week, Meet the Voices, presents Winter Peck. She is an Iowan at heart. At the age of 10 she discovered her talent for composing stories, and a passion was born. She leans heavily on her mid-western roots, her love of the Old West, and the rodeo. Winter is married to a National Guardsman, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their story during the time of his deployment will be published in the book GOD Strong: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Military Wives, by Sara Horn (Zondervan 2010). She’s the mother of three boys and one cowgirl in training. Along with her own blog Rodeo with a Twist of Suspense; she contributes a monthly column called She Wears Combat Boots Too at the Take Root and Write blog. Winter and […]
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Musings
Thoughts from the road…. I am finally on my way home. It’s been two weeks of conferences and family travel (we went to Taylor University to check it out for my oldest son) and as my husband logs hours behind the wheel, I am furiously editing a book. (while singing Disney songs, which I’ve discovered are greatly motivating). Occasionally, I Iook up from my computer. Check out the road, hunt for anything new. It’s pretty much the same – pavement, cornfields, farms, the occasional trucker. We zipped through Chicago last night and for a while watched the bright lights against the dark sky. Then I put my head down again and keep working. Plugging away at my book. I don’t mind travelling, especially with my family and […]
Read the RestFour Keys to a Writer’s Life
You’re back! *grin* Okay, fellow writers, then let’s get busy. Today, as we prep for our journey, I want you to start exercising! We’re going to get in shape! Work off the dust of our minds, and tighten the flab of our daily schedules so we can utilize the writing time we have our days. Writing is much like every other discipline. There are four keys to a successful writer’s life: It takes commitment, (after all, as much as we’d like it to happen, those books don’t just download from our brains automatically!), it takes nurturing (did you know that your brain has a well of words for each day, and you need to replenish those words after you use them?), it takes time, (something we’re going to figure out […]
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We all have goals, right? Dreams, desires, things that have been niggling at us for years. For writers, it’s the dream of writing a novel. You’re a writer if every time you hear an interesting job description, read a compelling story in the newspaper, you think, hey, that would make an interesting premise for a novel. Well, this is the year to make that happen. Every week on Book Therapy we’ll be studying another aspect in storytelling – taking the “Heroes Journey” and breaking it down into bite-sized pieces for you to chew on and put in your Heroes Journey notebook. When we’re done, you should have the elements of how to write a great novel. Every Friday, we’re going to put those lessons into action by offering exercises—and asking […]
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