Wild Onions, Orange Popsicles, and Truth

Yesterday Joyce Hostetter and I brainstormed our upcoming workshop for theWrite2Ignite conference. We have presented “Using Life Experiences to Inform Your Writing” at other venues, but we like to tweak it each time to make it fresh. We introduce ourselves by each reading a passage that springboards from our own life experiences.  Previously, I have read from an article for adults in...

Carol Baldwin

  Drop in to Carol Baldwin’s blog for an interesting blurb about Write2Ignite! Be sure to leave a comment, please. Carol will be one of our three Key Note Speakers this year. Hope to see all of you March 16-17, at Write2Ignite! 2012, on the beautiful campus of North Greenville University near Greenville, SC. Get details by clicking on the Write2Ignite! 2012 tab...

Humility in the Marketplace

The world says, “Promote yourself!” The Word says, “Humble yourself.” How do we, as Christian writers, reconcile these two philosophies? I have struggled with this question; perhaps you have too.  When Jean Hall invited me to be a keynote speaker I decided to try and answer my own questions as well as to challenge Write-2-Ignite attendees. During my talk I’ll encourage all of us to...

The Ripple Effect of Words

Carol Baldwin, a Write2Ignite! 2012 Presenter, freelance writer, and author of Teaching the Story, offered some words of affirmation for one member of the  Write2Ignite! Leadership Team, Donna Earnhardt. Carol forwarded the following encouraging comments about Donna. Of course, we wanted to share these ‘Apples of Gold‘ written about one of our Write2Ignite! leadership team members...