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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: September 2012
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Monday, September 17, 2012. Humbled by One Simple Deed. Do you ever feel compelled when something visible grabs you? When you know it’s not you making the plan. It’s an overpowering feeling of knowing you must. My heart felt joy when I saw him. I pulled up, not knowing what to say, handed him the food and said, “God bless you.”. Then looking me in the eye he said, “Give me 30 seconds? I said okay, thinking a pitch for money was coming.
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: January 2012
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Random Acts of Kindness. Random Acts of Kindness. Christmas is the time when many acts of kindness are distributed throughout the world. It’s a magical time of year. Since we are entering a new year, why not spend it looking for ways to give little gifts all year long? Sounds great, but how do we do this? Second day out Calvin our youngest at (age 8) and I went to Wal-Mart to wire money to a family friend who h...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: Story Listening
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Thursday, May 16, 2013. As a writer I have learned a lot about story reading and story telling. But there is one aspect that I have also learned but didn’t realize until I decided to write about it! Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting with my neighbor and listening to her recent struggle about saying yes or no to one of the many obligations that came her way. It was time for the annual tea at her church. She had done. Had a very tig...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: Who Is Driving?
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Thursday, September 11, 2014. Writing – A strange Affair. Writing is a journey. An author starts out with an idea, knowing where the characters are going. We get in a car, aka favorite chair, start the engine and slowly go on down the road with an acute sense of where we are headed and journal the scenes for the reader as we go along on this wonderful trip of creating a story. So, with a light heart I begin. The story is moving along...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: September 2013
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Thursday, September 26, 2013. Book 3- Cover Contest. My graphics guru, Leah. Came up with several book cover choices for Lace’s Legacy, the third book in the Lacy. Lacy’s Lane (available at Amazon now), Lacy’s Life (coming soon) and finally Lacy’s Legacy (currently writing). You’ll make my decision easy since they are both gorgeous! Thank you Leah Banicki for your lovely work! You can find Lacy's Lane on amazon. Links to this post. Patri...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: Falling Star
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Saturday, November 10, 2012. There are some things that need to be written down. Moments of clarity in the midst of hurt and pain in this world. There are moments when it seems that understanding death, divorce, broken lives, deep hurts from words or deeds that have affected our life forever, will never be understood. Why did it seem he had thrown her under the bus? We knew it wasn’t true. But right then it seemed so true. Struggling wit...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: October 2013
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Sunday, October 27, 2013. Life is busy isn’t it? I’m tempted right at the beginning to make a list of everything we do, but I am going to refrain. Because I would like to paint a word picture for you. What do you notice as you walk through your daily routine? Our minds have the ability to process. Our eyes to see things. Even from our busy viewpoint,. We choose what we notice. Then we make assumptions. Are you getting the picture? Okay, ...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: Word Pictures
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Sunday, October 27, 2013. Life is busy isn’t it? I’m tempted right at the beginning to make a list of everything we do, but I am going to refrain. Because I would like to paint a word picture for you. What do you notice as you walk through your daily routine? Our minds have the ability to process. Our eyes to see things. Even from our busy viewpoint,. We choose what we notice. Then we make assumptions. Are you getting the picture? Okay, ...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: May 2013
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Thursday, May 16, 2013. As a writer I have learned a lot about story reading and story telling. But there is one aspect that I have also learned but didn’t realize until I decided to write about it! Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting with my neighbor and listening to her recent struggle about saying yes or no to one of the many obligations that came her way. It was time for the annual tea at her church. She had done. Had a very tig...
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings: November 2012
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Writing Fiction with Happy Endings. Writing that encourages others. Tuesday, November 13, 2012. Kindle Fire HD Giveaway- Patricia Strefling. Please include full name, email and mailing address. Trouble with the click to enter? Just email your name address and email to patskindlead@icloud.com. You will be able to send extra entries- you will be emailed a list of all ways you can earn extra entries. No purchase necessary. The contest ends at midnight December 9th, 2012. Links to this post. Both of us were ...
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