A Backstage Observer: Aspiring Author/Reader

This is how I feel most days when I pick up a book: sitting backstage longing to be the one upon it.

I don't feel like the audience, like I used to before I took up my pen.

I feel like a stage hand, wanting to be on stage but having to take a seat behind the curtains. I've felt that way before...when I was Props head on the stage of Our Town. It was excruciating at times. Trying to embrace my second best job. I so wanted to be the one in the spotlight.
But something is different now.

Back then, I didn't spot all the flaws of the acting. Actually, I aspired to it. Now, with a book in my hand, all I can see are the flaws glaring at me...and the voice inside my head saying, "Why this? And not mine?"

I am such a bad book club member...while I want to gush over a NYT bestseller, I just can't when there are flaws. And, it's my own issue...because one day, I hope that someone will read my books regardless of the flaws. Which, I am sure there will be many!

I am at the Alley today, sharing about this very topic. Please stop by! www.thewritersalleyblog.com

I am at the Alley today...

Talking about Community in the writing world! Come on by!

Talking Brands At The Alley Today

What do you think about when I say, Harlequin?

Come by The Writer's Alley, I am talking about branding! 

Happy Monday!

Golden Writing: The Writer's Alley

Swing by The Writer's Alley and check out my Elizabeth I inspired post!

Leave Your ......Closet Behind!

Do you have a talent that you aren't quite sure about? Are you dreaming big things but embarrassed to tell the world? Have you scooted a talent away because it is too extravagant to be God's gift? Go over to The Writer's Alley today and check out my post inspired by Jen Hatmaker and my own journey!

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At The Alley with Patricia Beal

Author Patricia Beal

Be sure to swing by the Writer's Alley today! We have a wonderful post on writing conference inspiration by guest blogger, Patricia Beal. She'll be your Mississippi. :)

Weekend's Inspiration...

This weekend's baseball tournament inspired my post on The Writer's Alley tomorrow. Be sure to swing by! Here's a preview...and you say, "What has this to do with writing??" come find out!

A Season For...

"Whether it be a slew of rejections on the book of my heart with less and less hope for a "yes", or a broken relationship where time is the only medicine, I am starting to realize the importance of a season versus a momentary lapse.

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I would rather throw a fit, move forward, and slap a huge happy band-aid on my struggles. It's worked before. A new contest to enter, a new book proposal to whip up, an apology, a change of scenery...

But what happens when those things just don't cut it? When the future...while glimmering with hope in the distance...just isn't all that pretty in the up-close? When the writing doesn't come, the desire is as parched as a dried up inkwell, and chaos is frantically buzzing around?"

There is healing ahead, but sometimes you just have to know what the season calls for...check out the rest of my post on The Writer's Alley today. Leave a comment too!

Rain In The Desert

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Are you in a spiritually "wet" season, but walking through a desert in circumstance?

When we cling close to our God in those times of walking in the desert, He will supply us with an amazing rainy season for our hearts, and guide us when we least expect it!

Here is a sample of my post on the Alley today:

"In my recent encounters in the desert of life, God has presented conversations that have pulled truth from my heart through my lips that I didn't even realize was significant when I read it earlier in His Scripture... BUT IT WAS FOR A TIME SO PERFECTLY PLOTTED BY MY GOD!"

God blesses us in relationship no matter the chaos about us. All we have to do is turn to Him.

Check it out my post  here!