by Shannon Dittemore | Apr 17, 2020 | Author Life, Creativity, Writing, Writing Life
It’s Friday, friends! Time to . . . do exactly what you’ve been doing for the last month. But maybe with a little weekend sizzle. Before we jump into today’s blog post, let me first congratulate the winner of last week’s giveaway....
by Shannon Dittemore | Apr 10, 2020 | Author Life, Guest Posts, Learning from Other Authors
Good morning, friends! I have a fun surprise for you today. Author Kara Swanson stopped by for a visit. I meet Kara a few years back at a writing conference in Southern California. She’s a young writer with a lovely soul and a compelling life story. In this...
by Shannon Dittemore | Apr 3, 2020 | Encouragement, Productivity, Writing, Writing Life
This is a strange season, is it not? We’re all holed up in our houses. Many of us are bored. Most of us are restless. And yet, it can be very challenging to focus long enough to get much writing done. If you weren’t doing your schooling at home prior to...
by Shannon Dittemore | Mar 27, 2020 | Encouragement, Goals, Writing, Writing Life
There’s an old poem with no title and an unknown author, and it opens like this: From an old English parsonage down by the seaThere came in the twilight a message to me;Its quaint Saxon legend, deeply engraven,Hath, it seems to me, teaching from Heaven.And on...
by Shannon Dittemore | Mar 20, 2020 | Writing Exercise
In the spirit of trying-new-things-while-in-isolation, I decided to put together a video for you all! It’s eight minutes long, tells a fun CS Lewis story, and leaves you with one of my favorite writing exercises. Enjoy! And please play along. I’ll feel...
