Operation Adoption: Author Jessie Gunderson’s latest Project:

I’ll Never Get My Life Back by Jessie Gunderson I’ve never thought of myself as the mothering type. I was the little girl playing in the mud and riding horses.  The delight I experienced once I started having kids surprised me, but I still longed for a day when they’d be grown up and I’d [...]

4 Tips to Finding Your Blogging Voice

Oh man, the growing pains of blogging and discovering what’s unique about you. Tough! I struggle with it all the time. I wrote about blogging rules and how they are like matching socks. They stink and you never find two the same. I’m redneck and random and I don’t like “fitting” in but I also [...]

3 Tips for Beating Discouragement in Your Writing Career

Sometimes I’m discouraged at the long road behind me and the longer road ahead as I seek to build a career as an author. I’ve now sold my first article, but it’s been months and no new bites. When I’m discouraged I find these tips helpful. Pray for Perspective: Re-evaluate my purpose and where I’m [...]

Studying Emotions in Life & Writing Through Friendly Fire

I woke in the middle of the night to the rooster crowing at the moon. Strange but true. Poor pea brained birds don’t know the difference between the moon, a bright light bulb or the sun! Later, and still before the sun had risen, I woke again to the sound of a single gun shot. [...]

How to Write Without an Office

Does the lack of privacy keep you from writing? In a recent web class I learned more about the unique way I learn, write and study. I had to laugh but I’m in a stage of life where my natural needs in the way of office space (private, quiet, creatively decorated) aren’t an option. With five [...]

Notes from a Newbie

I remember the day I started seriously writing. It came at the hand of a hard critique. But not just any hard critique, the careful critique of a true mentor and friend. She graciously agreed to take a look at my writing project and give me her thoughts. I’d started writing a testimony of sorts, [...]