Jealousy: A Common Emotion We Deal With as Writers By Sondra Kraak

Jealousy.

It’s messy, hot, uncomfortable and, well, ugly. 

It eats at the bones. It smolders in the chest. It exhausts the heart. We see another writer get a contract, or another’s book get praised, and jealousy flares within us, and that leads to a sense of competition, and into a spiral of comparison that makes us doubt our calling and gifts. 

Friends, how can we adequately dive into the struggle of jealousy in a 700-word post? We can only play around in the shallows of it, but maybe that will get us looking deeper into our motivations, our fears, and our struggles as writers—as they relate to jealousy.

A Survey of Sorts

Hey everyone, Annette here. Our originally scheduled guest wasn’t able to get her article to me, so I thought we’d do something a little differently today.

Your hostesses are curious about your input here at Seriously Write. What would you like to see? What brings you back to Seriously Write? Do you enjoy the devotionals as well as the how-tos? Do you have time for a daily blog? (i.e. our blog has fresh daily content—do you read it every day, or once a week, etc.?) What is your favorite feature day and why? (Choose: Manuscript Monday, Net’s Notations Tuesdays, Grammar Wednesdays, Dawn’s Devotional Thursdays, or Fortifying Fridays)

We’re making some changes in the coming weeks and would love to have your input. So, leave a comment with feedback, suggestions, and/or answers to the above questions. Let’s dialogue.

Thanks, dear readers!

Happy First Anniversary!!

Happy anniversary, dear readers! A year ago today Seriously Write launched for Christian writers as a place to encourage, support, and even give you a place to share your articles on writing with other writers. What a year it’s been! Many talented authors have visited to share how-tos and their journeys with us.

Along the way, a wonderful thing happened: over and over, we found readers encouraged by posts here at SW. Advice and interaction flowed between visiting authors and readers.

As a hostess and one who contributes blog posts, I found God inspiring my posts just at the time I, myself, needed the information. *grin* Then, I’d occasionally hear from others who’d been encouraged, too. Isn’t it great how God works like that?

Dawn and I both enjoyed connecting with fellow authors who graciously contributed to our specially themed days.

Speaking of which . . .

Big news: We’re excited to announce that we’ll soon have a new hostess. She’s one of the members of our critique group (McCrit), and a good friend. She’s also a newly published author (in 2009 & 2010). She’s visited before to share her journey story, and she’ll be a regular on Manuscript Mondays through the summer. But her official day is Wednesday coming in mid- to late summer. A round of virtual applause for Ocieanna Fleiss!!

We’re so grateful for everyone’s involvement. As always, if you’d like to contribute a craft article, or your own journey to publication, leave a comment, and we'll connect with you there. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re always looking for ways to improve SW, so if there’s a topic you’d like to see addressed, or a Christian author you’d love to hear from, let us know and we’ll see what we can do. We want to help and encourage you as a writer.

Here’s to another year full of connecting writers at a place where wisdom, advice, experience, and support can be shared.

Happy First Anniversary!!