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It’s a Snoopy Kind of Day

By Karen Ballon August 5, 2015
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This is not a deep-thought day. Well, not the way you might think. It’s not a day to explore thought provoking issues, craft issues, or career insights. Today, I find that my mind is a bit too reflective of what’s happening outside, where our beautiful valley is cloaked in smoke from wildfires hours away. The mountain range I usually look at and savor is obliterated by the white haze of death. (My “affectionate” name for the white smoke that comes to visit every summer…) My beautiful flowers are bent over, as though they, too, gasp for air in the fog of particulates. And while I’m inside, protected to a certain degree by air conditioning and HEPA filters, the smoke still seeps in and muddles my brain.

So what to do on days like this, when our minds and creativity feel bogged down, whether for physical reasons or otherwise? Take a break.

With Snoopy! Because if anyone understands what we writers go through, it’s Snoopy.

So since I’m in need of a Snoopy break today, I thought I’d take you all along with me.

Enjoy!

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Category: The Writing LifeTag: Snoopy, The Writing Life

Starting Your Own Writer’s Conference

By Dan Balowon June 9, 2015
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No, you don’t need to start your own writer’s conference, but the headline sounded attention-grabbing to me. Every writer needs to intentionally put themselves in a position to learn and be challenged in a variety of areas. The formal environment for that is the professional writer’s conference. Click here for a list, but you need something more consistent and ongoing as well. Not everyone lives …

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Category: Conferences, The Writing LifeTag: Challenge Group, The Writing Life, writers conferences

Tools from the Front Lines: Quotations on Writing

By Karen Ballon April 15, 2015
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Okay, admit it, you love to read quotes about writing or writers. Especially if they’re from other writers. So do I. In fact, I keep a growing list of quotations that inspire me, or make me laugh, or make me think. And on those days when I’m struggling, or when I feel the right words are eluding me, I fix myself a cup of coffee, open up the list, and spend time just reading. So here, to get you …

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Category: Craft, Creativity, The Writing LifeTag: The Writing Life, Writing Quotes

It Really Is Like Riding A Bike

By Guest Bloggeron March 31, 2015
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By Michelle Van Loon Today, I’d like to introduce Michelle Van Loon as guest blogger for Holy Week. In 2016, NavPress will publish her new book focusing on the connections between Jewish traditions and our Christian faith. Michelle’s deeply-rooted faith in Christ and secular Jewish heritage are apparent in her creative, carefully-crafted storytelling. A focus on spiritual formation and education …

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Category: Book Business, Career, Creativity, Get Published, Guest Post, The Writing Life, Writing CraftTag: Memory, The Writing Life

Tools from the Front Lines of Life: Authenticity

By Karen Ballon March 25, 2015
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Some things have happened in my life in the last few months that, were I to put them in a novel, readers would say, “That’s just not believable. No way all that happens to one person!” Yeah. Wouldn’t that be nice? But here’s the thing: Hard times, good times…struggles, peace…abundance, desperate lack…sorrow, joy… It’s all gold for writers. Now, I’m not saying to go out there and experience …

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Category: Career, Get Published, The Writing Life, TheologyTag: authenticity, Success, Writing Life

Start the New Year Right

By Karen Ballon January 7, 2015
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I must have started this blog fifteen times. I’d write a word or a line, then delete it. All because I’m trying to think of something new and clever to say about the fact that we’re facing a new year. But you know what? There isn’t really anything new to say. Sure, publishing has changed, and will continue to change. Yes, books are being published and will continue to be published. How that …

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Category: Art, Career, The Writing Life, Writing CraftTag: story, The Writing Life

Joy to the (Writer’s) World!

By Karen Ballon December 17, 2014
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The Christmas season is upon us. A time of delight and good cheer. A time overflowing with laughter, when we’re restored to carefree children filled with wonder. Right? Um…not so much. In fact, a number of folks have said how frustrated they are, how they’re behind on everything, and overwhelmed with all they should be doing. After all, it’s Christmas! And if they don’t get things done, Christmas …

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Category: Get Published, The Writing LifeTag: Christmas, Expectations, The Writing Life

Tis the Season for Stories!

By Karen Ballon December 10, 2014
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December has to be my favorite month of the year. I love all the preparations and decorations and celebrations for the Christmas season. But two of my favorite things about the Christmas season are the books and movies we savor every year because, for those of us in the Ball household, it just isn’t Christmas without: Books The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. (“Hey! Unto you a …

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Category: Personal, The Writing LifeTag: Christmas, Stories

When Did You Know You Wanted to Be a Writer?

By Karen Ballon August 6, 2014
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Yesterday was my birthday. 57 years of life. It struck me yet again how quickly the days goes by. I swear it was just yesterday that I was a kid, canoeing on Diamond Lake, walking my dog to the used book store to buy my Thor comics (which I collected until my senior year in high school, and which, when I sold my collection, financed my first year of college), gathering with my pseudo-cousins after …

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Category: The Writing LifeTag: Career, The Writing Life

The World Rages

By Dan Balowon July 29, 2014
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One hundred years ago this week, the Great War began. It was the war that was supposed to end all wars. The world decided it was about time to get all their anger out at once and then go back to living in peace.  Following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary and Serbia decided they had had enough of civility and started fighting.  A world war …

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Category: The Writing LifeTag: Faith, The Writing Life, Theology
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