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Cleaning Out My Closets: By Rachel Hofstetter
Why is it that closets have become a place where we store our junk? About this time every year,…
December 27, 2017for guest posts and other miscellaneous posts
Why is it that closets have become a place where we store our junk? About this time every year,…
December 27, 2017I am not a music critic – that would be a dream job for me, to listen to music…
December 27, 2017Dad was the creative genius in our family. His fingers drew cartoons on paper napkins and released lullabies from…
December 25, 2017My husband and I don’t live check-to-check, but we also don’t have lots of extra money. However, one thing…
December 22, 2017I quit writing about four times a year. Especially, when I look at the ages of my children, at…
November 28, 2017There is a unique magic to epiphany. That “A-HA!” moment when all of the elusives tumble into perfect place,…
November 27, 2017My pastor and mentor, Larry, grimaced at me back in my early twenties. “Why do you like those scary…
November 22, 2017At any given time, I have at least half-a-dozen stories binging around in my head. That’s just how my…
November 19, 2017Overwhelmed. Exhausted. Enlightened. I struggled to stay awake on the drive home from the Ohio Christian Writers Conference, my…
November 16, 2017You saw a listing for a writing conference. It looks amazing. You’re excited, then doubts creep in. Am I…
November 14, 2017I started working as a professional writer when I was seventeen. So completely captured by the craft, I made the…
October 22, 2017Technical writing is a different kind of writing. As a matter of fact, it is a very different kind…
October 16, 2017Have you ever picked up a book and after a few pages, put it down saying, “This isn’t…
October 14, 2017For the past five years, I’ve been blogging for teenage fiction writers. As the editor-in-chief of an online magazine…
September 27, 2017As an English major in college, I was eager to put my skills to work… I wanted to create…
September 26, 2017In the weeks before a conference, my excitement and happy thoughts twist into nervous doubts. What if I get…
September 19, 2017Got challenges? Don’t we all. Life is filled with obstacles on the pathway to realizing our goals and purposes.…
September 18, 2017Being a teenager is hard. Especially a teenager striving to be a published author. It’s stressful finding time to…
August 28, 2017“Sorry, but I can’t make those changes to my manuscript. It’s my baby.” We cling tight to our books,…
August 8, 2017Opinions. Opinions. More opinions float through a person’s mind in the course of a day than Aristotle has twelve-letter…
July 14, 2017I wrote my first fiction novel in four months during 2009 because I believed I could write a…
June 16, 2017Which is easier: fiction or nonfiction? It depends … on who you ask and when you ask them. Today…
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