Thursday Thought: Dependable Failure
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 8/29/2019 to
The concept of trying is plastered everywhere in our society. You don’t have to go far to find a motivational picture with some variance of the words “Keep Trying!” calling out to you. It’s inescapable. And yet, for all the pithy slogans, we still get gummed up in the sheer weight of what it means to try.
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Hard work to Hard Copy: Three Tips for Finding Great Beta Readers
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 8/27/2019 to
In the midst of all this editing your book, there’s another, less well-known step. A step that can not only really improve the quality of your book, but also give you a great deal of reassurance and confidence as a writer. That step is using beta readers.
Thursday Thought: When Your Best Isn't Enough
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 8/22/2019 to
There are some things we just don’t like to think about. When we’ll die, squished cupcakes, embarrassing things we did when we were thirteen, and so on. Standing proudly on that list is the fear of coming up short.
Hard Work to Hard Copy: Overcoming Writer's Doubt
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 8/13/2019 to
I had glorious plans to write another blog post about editing and proofreading this week. But as I reflected on my time on that stage, I skipped down the memory lane of that period, and what I remembered from that time was suddenly front and center in my mind.
Writer’s doubt.
Thursday Thought: Between Salvation and Heaven
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 8/8/2019 to
No one likes the idea of living a life dogged by hardship. I can pretty much guarantee no one wakes up in the morning and says “Hurray! Today’s going to be really difficult!”. It just doesn’t happen. So instead we actively look for ways to relieve life’s hardships. The disappointing thing is that we do so with very little relief. Life somehow just stays hard. Even when we accept Christ and find the answers to life we’ve been looking for, we’re still followed by hardship and struggle. I have sat with people who have asked (and more than once have wondered myself) if I’ve accepted Christ, why is my life still so difficult? Am I doing something wrong? Did I make a mistake somewhere? Am I not doing enough?
Thursday Thought: Lessons from Peter on Failure
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 8/1/2019 to
There’s a story in the Bible that just about everyone knows. Everyone knows it to the point it’s jumped into worldly vernacular with the phrase “walking on water”. Obviously, I’m talking about Jesus strolling across Galilee to meet his disciples in their boat. There are not many other instances of walking on water that I know of…