Comments on: Keeping the Writing Love Alive https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bette A. Stevens https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139711 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:03:27 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139711 Thanks!

]]> By: Terry Odell https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139709 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:17:51 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139709 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

And I look forward to the posts!

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139708 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:37:05 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139708 Thank you. I needed this today!

denise

]]> By: arukshitadeswal https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139706 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:52:53 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139706 I found your blog really interesting. Btw I am 14 and I just created my new blog, it's about poetry and writing. http://www.spiritonversations.wordpress.com

]]> By: Keeping the Writing Love Alive – From the Writers in the Storm Blog | Author Don Massenzio https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139705 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:12:24 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139705 […] Read the rest of this post HERE. […]

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139704 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 06:32:50 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139704 In reply to Kim Lightle.

You can do this, Kim! I know you can. Look at Laura's comment up at the top...she is speaking to you, Brave Girl. 🙂

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139703 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 06:31:49 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139703 In reply to Julie Glover.

I think those are wonderful, important thoughts, Julie. The only one who has to be happy in your writing life is you. If your needs change, so too will your career. If the market changes, that will affect your relationship with your writing as well.

The smart writer looks at what IS, rather than deluding themselves about how they wish things could be.

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139702 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 06:27:09 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139702 In reply to Terry Odell.

Terry, I so look forward to your comments every day that we post. I just thought I would say... 🙂

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139701 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 06:26:16 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139701 In reply to LauraDrake.

You know I love that Randy Pausch quote. And, my God, was he brave or what? To do that last lecture without breaking down...I don't think I could have done it. Of course, I am a writer, so maybe I could have!

]]> By: Sherry Carter https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-keep-the-love-alive-for-your-writing/#comment-139700 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 04:24:02 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36464#comment-139700 I'm a bit strange in the writer's world. I don't love to write. My career was as an engineer, designing instruments, creating technical drawings and instruction manuals, and training people to use the equipment. Shortly after I was laid off, God called me to write. It's out of line with my technical mind and I'm a total extrovert. But several of your suggestions were very helpful.

There are days I have no desire to sit, alone, staring at a computer screen. You helped me realize that I can plan for that. God called me to write and I have to obey that call but to do so in a way that causes me to hate writing doesn't please him.

My husband and I are retired now and we're beginning to realize some of dreams to travel and spend more time with family and friends. I can reinvent my commitment to writing every day based on this season of my life. God has given me the gift of retirement and the call to write. He has a balance for me if I stay in His will.

Even so, as you said, it is my responsibility to be obedient to Him and to write. I just need to do it without the judgment and guilt I've been dumping on myself.

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