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Christian Writer to talk on Writing Process as Work of the Soul at OC Christian Writers Conference

March 31st, 2011 occwf-director

Vinita Hampton Wright2011 Faculty

The active creative life is a calling, one you have to say yes to discover its true power and joy in your life, according to Vinita Hampton Wright.

If you’re engaged in any form of writing, Vinita Hampton Wright’s The Soul Tells a Story is a valuable resource on the nature and practices of the creative process in the soul of the writer. It’s a calling to a divine process in our lives.Creating is kin to our spiritual lives in that both necessitate a submission to a process that is more than can be comprehended with the conscious mind alone. Through her narrative survey and analysis of this creative process that is both inspiring and enlarging she brings insight to a dimension of the creative life that is often left unexplored. (more…)

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Interview with 2010 Keynote Speaker, Kathy Collard Miller

February 3rd, 2011 craftingstones.com

Kathy Collard Miller, 2010 Keynote

Visit Kathy at

KathyCollardMiller.com
KathyCollardMiller.blogspot.com

Thank you Kathy for taking the time to let our attendees meet you in cyberspace. Let’s get started with a very important question:

1. What do you believe is the most challenging/difficult aspect of writing for the Kingdom and how do you overcome it?

I think having the right motives. It’s so easy to let our own egos motivate us rather than wanting to give glory to God. And unrighteous motives sneak in so subtly. We might want that byline to show our mother we really can do something well. We might want the money to spend on our own pleasures. We might want big sales so that we can become famous and popular. In the beginning we feel very pure in our motives. We’ll even say we don’t care about the byline. But very easily and subtly, self sneaks in and we want ourselves to be praised rather than God. We can easily learn to correct our grammar, but correcting a greedy or ego-centered or proud heart is a lot harder. (more…)

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