Starting Gates and Finish Lines

This weekend is my 20th class reunion in Michigan. As the resident writer of our tiny class, I was asked to write the foreword to our reunion book. These were my thoughts:

At the Starting Gate

In the two short decades we have been out of high school, even class reunions have changed. Many mini reunions happen every minute…

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Color Coded Editing

Color Coded EditingEditing has turned out to be a tangled, complicated experiment. And my only defense is $5 worth of colored Post It Notes.

When I started Dismantling Spider Webs (DSW) last year, I had a fully fleshed out outline with all my sub-plots, character motivation and satisfying conclusion. It was condensed to a clever Excel spreadsheet and everybody fit nicely into…

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Tortured Writers and Suicidal Artists

(Blatantly stolen from Jon Acuff at Stuff Christians Like. Check out his new book by the same title.)

This is a long video (almost 20 minutes) but it includes a wonderful message on how creativity and our life’s purpose is found outside ourselves.

I know I can feel overwhelmed about the next steps, the validity of writing a…

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Watch me now!

BinocularsAbout a year ago, some colleagues suggested I attend a Women in Business Networking (WiBN) Lunch and Learn event. What a joy it was! Friendly women of all walks, networking and pertinent messages are supplied every month. They also have special education events, a yearly conference (which I was honored to be part of last year) and monthly…

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