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Writing My Way Back to God

I was a freshman in college when I first started keeping a prayer journal. Merging my love for writing with my love for God was exactly what I needed to take my faith to another level. My prayer journal became a collection of love letters to God. My prayers became poetry and suddenly God was everything and everywhere. God was a post-workout smoothie. God was the sun kissing my brown skin when I would lie on the quad reading. Once on New Year’s Eve, I felt God with me on the dance floor of a night club.

Prayer has not made me immune to crises of faith. These crises usually happen when so-called Christians are being racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic in Jesus’ name. I stop going to church and I start questioning everything – until I remember the God I fell in love with so many years ago.

But this time things are different.

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Could the Enneagram help you be a better writer?

Originally published May 31, 2020

Could the Enneagram help you be a better writer?

I started asking myself this question earlier this year as I began to delve into this ancient personality typing system that has seen a resurgence of popularity and been thrust in the mainstream in the past few years.

The Enneagram teaches that there are nine different personality styles in the world. Each type has a distinct worldview and underlying motivation that affects how that type thinks, feels, and behaves.

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Am I Too Old to Blog?

Am I too old to blog?

In exactly 7 months I will be 40 years old, but this is a question I first asked myself when I was 36.

I didn’t start to wonder if I were too old to blog because I was closer to 40 than 30. I started to ask myself this question because I came across a blogging contest that I thought I would be perfect for only to realize that it was only open to women under 35.

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Blog Like Everybody’s Reading

Last year I saw an Instagram post from Launch Pad Publishing that has stuck with me ever since. The graphic read, “Write like everybody’s reading.” And in the caption, Launch Pad Publishing stated, “Enough of the ‘dance like nobody’s watching’ business… Write like EVERYBODY’S reading and maybe they will.”

Yes! This!

I couldn’t wait to share this with the See Jane Write community, especially those working on books.

But, in a way, I believe this mindset applies even more to blogging. We bloggers need to blog like everybody’s reading.

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5 Ways See Jane Write Can Help You Get What You Want

What do you want for your writing life?

Do you want to write a book?

Have you written a book that you want to see published?

Do you want to start a blog?

Have you started a blog that you want to grow?

Do you want to begin a freelance writing career?

Have you been freelancing as a side gig and now you’re thinking of writing full time?

Or maybe you just want to FINALLY feel like a real writer.

See Jane Write exists to help you get what you want.

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