Housewarming: Celebrate Success,
Hold a
Housewarming Party,
Consider and Pray about Your Next Project.
Build it Right series
by Dora Hiers
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with
praise; Give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his
love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.
(Ps
100:4-5 NIV)
Celebrate
success.
What do you do when you type "The End" on your
story?
Offer a thanksgiving prayer. Celebrate. Go out for a
special dinner. Visit the spa. Meet a friend for coffee. Whatever you do to
celebrate victories and accomplishments.
Hold
a housewarming party.
Typing “the end” doesn’t mean the project is finished. In
the writing industry, the end is really the beginning. Your next step is to
submit your completed and polished work, whether it’s directly to the publisher
or to an agent. Show it off! But be warned…just as friends and family will
praise and criticize certain elements of your house, expect the same from
agents, publishers and readers.
Consider
and pray about your next project.
Who better than the Creator of the Universe to approach
for ideas and inspiration? Chat with God. Praise Him. Worship at His feet.
God has such an imagination and a sense of humor. Ask Him
for a spark, just a speck of sand, from His creative well and open your mind to
His possibilities.
Where can you find ideas?
- Scour newspapers, magazines, and books
- Soak up your favorite television shows
- Browse through news articles and local news sites
- Wade through files and notes, research online
- Dreams. (OK, I hear you laughing here, but don’t discount the idea. My opening scene for Journey’s Embrace actually came to me in a dream.)
- Consider life experiences: weddings, funerals, jobs, family issues, hobbies, etc.
In My Father's house there are many dwelling places
(homes).
If it were not so, I would have told you;
for I am going away to
prepare a place for you.
(John 14:2 AMP)
I’m
so thankful for the Master Builder and His creative well. What about you? Do
you incorporate God’s blueprint in your writing?
Thank you for joining me on this Build it Right! journey.
~~~~~
Journey's Edge:
A Routine Audit? Hardly. Red flags-including some goon who's following
her-raise McKinley Frasier's suspicions that numbers don't add up at the
insurance firm. When someone tries to snatch McKinley's daughter from
school, she turns to police officer and ex-fiance, Renner Crossman-the
cop who walked out on her a month before their wedding. But Renner's not
the same guy who broke her heart ten years ago. He calls himself a "new
man." She trusts the new Renner with her daughter's safety...but what
about her heart?
(print) (e-book)
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After a successful auditing career, Dora Hiers left the corporate world to be a stay-at-home mom to her two sons. When her youngest son didn’t want her hanging out at school with him anymore, Dora started writing heart racing, God-gracing books. Dora belongs to the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and the Carolina Christian Writers. Her first inspirational romance, Journey’s End, released with White Rose Publishing in 2011, and her second, Journey’s Edge released in March 2012. White Rose also contracted her third book in the Marshals of Journey Creek series, Journey’s Embrace, and her first short romance, Small Town Treasure. Dora and her husband make their home in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
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