This week I have a two part series for The Journey. Today is part two of The Journey with Paula Moldenhauer. Please welcome her as she answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? (Click here to read part 1 with Kathleen Kovach from yesterday) Sometimes Trusting Means Not Writing By Paula Moldenhauer It’s the first time my fingers have touched my computer keyboard in many days. I’m taking a chance typing this, hoping it won’t trigger another round of … [Read more...]
The Journey with Kathleen Kovach (Part 1 of 2)
This week I have a two part series for The Journey. Today is part one of The Journey with Kathleen E. Kovach. Please welcome her as she answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? I have told stories all my life. Before I could form letters, I would chatter in the backseat of the family car, spinning yarns that would make my older sister roll her eyes and declare, “Mom! Make her stop!” Once I learned how to write, my stories filled notebooks. Psalm 139:13 says … [Read more...]
Featured Book: Victoria and the Ghost
Victoria and the Ghost is written by Janet K. Brown. From the words of Jane, here is a little bit of background info on the story and what her book is about: The title of my book is Victoria and the Ghost. In North Texas where I live, a historic Texas ghost town by the name of Clara caught my interest. A German man started the town. Colonel Hermann Specht loved his adopted nation. He purchased the area, cut streets through named for Texans, and planted trees not native to the state. He … [Read more...]
The Journey with Bonnie Engstrom
Please welcome this weeks guest Bonnie Engstrom for The Journey. She answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? Wow, huge question. How did God influence my writing journey? It started out with a salad. A little background: I had been an empty nester for several years and spent a lot of time on my computer. One day I came across an online prayer request site. I found myself sitting at my desk praying for needs, sometimes three hours a day. During these … [Read more...]
Featured Book: Winds of Wyoming, A Kate Neilson Novel
Winds of Wyoming, A Kate Neilson Novel is written by Rebecca Carey Lewis. Here is the book blurb: Fresh out of a Pennsylvania penitentiary armed with a marketing degree, Kate Neilson heads to Wyoming anticipating a fresh start on a working guest ranch. A typical twenty-five-year-old woman might be looking to lasso a cowboy, but years of mistreatment by men have tainted her regard for the opposite sex. All she wants is to get on with life on the outside and avoid another felony, which could … [Read more...]
The Journey with Lori-Ann Whyte
Please welcome this weeks guest Lori-Ann White for The Journey. She answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? I’ve always been a bit…different, but no one expected me to move from academic excellence for the better part of six years at a university—and no degree. Thanks to such a stellar display of unparalleled brilliance, I’ve been at home for the past two years. What seemed like the worst possible thing has turned into numerous opportunities for growth, and … [Read more...]
Starting to work on Mari’s book again
I think many of you know I had put off writing Mari's book for a little while but I may not have gone into why I did so. Through different writing forums I became apart of I found out the book I had completed would be a great one for family and friends as long as that is where it ended. But if I wanted it to be read by more than just people I knew then it needed to be done in a completely different way. One thing I kept being told is I needed to add fiction elements to her book. At first … [Read more...]
The Unsung Hero of the Army, Part 2
This is the second part of the interview from yesterday, June 27, The Unsung Hero of the Army Part 1 A recruiter will typically work five to six days a week “and generally speaking probably a good 12 to 14 hours in a day.” In the Army they typically have regular 9 to 5 work weeks with doing PT[1] first thing in the morning. The reason they work 12 to 14 hour days is “it’s a part of being set up in the civilian area. We have to work around other people’s schedules. In order to sit down and … [Read more...]
Being Thankful
You know the old saying, “God works in mysterious ways?” Well, I so believe that can happen in so many different ways. I think back on my writing journey and I’m amazed at where it has ended up. I first started looking at how to publish Mari’s book on March 5, 2011. I joined Createspace. It is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. It was really neat to be part of a community of writers for the first time in my life. For me, I had no interest whatsoever in fiction writing. All I was looking for was … [Read more...]
Happiness
I’m sometimes amazed at the power of God. He put writing into my life and has blessed me as a result. Something that started out as a way to deal with my grief and share those feelings with my friends and family so they knew where I was at has turned into so much more. I look at Mari’s death in a whole new light. It’ll be four years on July 16 (Really, four years already!). Through my grief journey I’ve been able to find something that brings me pure happiness. I’ve been able to meet new and … [Read more...]
