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Today's blog post comes from writer Taryn Carbol In today’s day and age of technology, if you are applying for a new job, you are likely scrolling through online applications. Perusing these applications can become discouraging as...
Continue ReadingTaking Your First Steps as a Writer
Today's blog post comes from Encouragement for Today writer, Alexandra Hoover. I remember the first time my daughter, Leilla, took her first few steps. She was right around 1, wobbly knees, feet stumbling, adrenaline rushing. Our house...
Continue ReadingHow to Take Hold Of Immeasurably More
Today’s COMPEL blog post comes from Encouragement for Today writer and speaker, Alicia Bruxvoort. When my youngest son was a toddler, he accessorized every outfit with a bulky silver tape measure. Clipped to his waistband or hooked...
Continue ReadingWriting While Wrestling with Mom Guilt
Today’s COMPEL blog post comes from Encouragement for Today writer and author, Arlene Pellicane. “Mom, can you play with me?” Oh, this is a complicated question! On one hand, you probably only have 18 summers with...
Continue ReadingOur God is Not a God of Maybes
Today's COMPEL Blog post comes from Encouragement for Today writer, Corrie Gerbatz. It was 1:00pm. The time I had intentionally set aside to write. And yet there I stood in the kitchen, wiping down the counters, reorganizing all the...
Continue ReadingP.A.C.E. Your Writing Life
This week's COMPEL Blog post was written by Encouragement for Today writer Laura Bailey. "Writing is so much more than putting words on a page. I was so naive, having absolutely no idea about the amount of work...
Continue ReadingThe God Who Sees Me
I received the long text and read it slowly. Then I read it again. She accused me of saying things I never said. She assumed words I’d written on social media were about her when they weren’t. I sat...
Continue ReadingHow to Write in the In-Between
Today's blog post comes from Proverbs 31 Ministries' Promotional Copy Writer, Meghan Ryan. In October 2019, I moved to a new city where I didn’t know anyone. The transition was tough, and for the first several months, I...
Continue ReadingIt’s time to call yourself a writer
I decided a few years back I wanted to run a marathon. I have never been particularly athletic, but I was determined, and over weeks and months of training runs of 13, 15 and 20 miles...
Continue ReadingHelp For When You’re Struggling to Find the Words to Write
Today's blog post comes from Proverbs 31 Ministries' Content Coordinator for Lysa TerKeurst and author of Shiny Things: Mothering on Purpose in a World of Distractions, Amanda Bacon. These days we are living in are difficult...
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