by Lisa-Jo | Oct 20, 2012 | 31 days to write your story
Have you met Katie? At 17 Jesus wrecked her life. She wrote about it in the most compelling book – Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption – that shares the every day details of what that kind of wrecking ball looks like in the life of...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 19, 2012 | 31 days to write your story, Blogging, Five Minute Friday
During the month of October I’m spending 31 days writing about writing. So it makes sense to spend Fridays doing just that – writing. Always just for five, unedited minutes. Why yes, writers like a good flash mob of words. Wanna join? –>Click to...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 18, 2012 | 31 days to write your story
Yesterday we talked about the art of being ruthless with our writing. Today, I want to suggest a purpose for those scraps that it hurts you to cut. Save ’em all! Yup, when I’m writing I often have two documents open. One for my work in progress and the...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 17, 2012 | 31 days to write your story
In the last two weeks we’ve talked about how you actually *are* a writer. How you *do* have a story to write. And how first you need to let yourself *just write* without worrying if it’s *just right* or not. Now it’s time to talk about editing....
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 16, 2012 | 31 days to write your story
It’s been four nights since we slept through. Four nights of fevers so high they scared me. Four nights of rocking and rocking and rocking her till I was sweaty with her sweat. There is a rocking chair and Motrin and the ER and tests and then this room again....
