
Sketch artist and writer Candace Rose Rardon tells the story of her search for home through the different teas she has discovered while traveling.
Home is a Cup of Tea
Sketch artist and writer Candace Rose Rardon tells the story of her search for home through the different teas she has discovered while traveling.
Home is a Cup of Tea
“What if we, I don’t know, call people Beloved instead of Sinner? You know, as if we believe that “God SO LOVED the world He sent his son”
http://bethwoolsey.com/2013/10/3-reasons-i-quit-loving-the-sinner-and-hating-the-sin/
You know you are sunk when you get to 28,000 words and realise you just don’t want to be writing the story you are. So although practically I could finish nanowrimo this year, I won’t.
Life is too short to be writing stuff you are not interested in. However I will keep on writing.
I have been reading Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird and she talks about writing because you want to write, not because you want to get published. That, is a very liberating thing, because it means you can write what you feel drawn to, not what you feel you “should” be.
And nobody likes shoulds.
So today I will write… Something. And when it isn’t an awful first draft, I shall post it ❤
It has been a busy week, so a number of cool and interesting things have been sitting on my phone ready to read or watch. I finally caught up with them all today and these are the best:
From TED, the most lovely visual performance from Miwa Matreyek described as:
“a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery”
And a thought provoking piece about motivation and apathy from Dave Meslin identifying seven barriers to motivation.
Elsewhere I came across Faith Street which has articles from people of all sorts of faiths, including a lot of christian writers including:
Philip Yancy
Shane Claibourne
Tony Campolo
Rick Warren
In the Guardian, Katie Carter explains why she loves running so much… I wish I loved it enough to be this motivated!
And back on TED there is a whole list of videos just waiting to inspire us all to better writing. Enjoy 😀
I had a very helpful advice from Instant Apostle today, having had a rejection letter for my book yesterday. They pointed out that it sounded like a blog post or a preach – which when I thought about it wasn’t at all surprising as those are the two things I have most practice at when it comes to communicating to a lot of people at once.
Of course I was disappointed, but i have decided to learn from it… and do what I know best. So starting tomorrow, I shall be serialising my “preach” here on my blog – the intro and first bit of “The Zedonk Christian”.
I am thankful to Instant Apostle for taking the time to write back to me – they didn’t have to! I’m also thankful today for the time to catch up with my dad, do the shopping and go to the cinema with R this evening. In the meantime, the park was as beautiful as ever, autumn is creeping on, and a quote I read today has been rattling around my brain:
The best blog post I have read all year… Please don’t pass it by, take the time to read it. Thank you dear lovely followers, Karen.
AKA Understanding Alice
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.
Some of the blogs I am following have some jolly good things to say at the moment, so I thought I would pass on a few to you.
They share a theme of yearning for truth, justice, real life – I hope they inspire you as they have me:
Our Cinderella mission
The Caterpillar effect
Jesus vs Religion