Renie's World is here!

It's a beautiful, new day and with it comes a beautiful, new blog:

Renie Burghardt's World

I'm sure many of you have come across inspirational articles/stories written by freelance writer, Renie Burghardt.

She is a dear friend of mine, and writing mentor to say the least. You'll enjoy her style of writing, wonderful personality, and her love of animals.

Renie Burghardt has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul (several), A Cup of Comfort (several), Guideposts (books and magazine), just to name a few. Her publishing credits are too many to mention!

Drop by her blog and say hi, while taking a break from writing the cyber highway!

Assignments

I'm really enjoying Jenna Glatzer's approach to freelance writing in her book, Make a REAL LIVING as a Freelance Writer.

Already, my mind is racing like crazy with all kinds of ideas for new stories. Be sure to check out her website as well: http://jennaglatzer.com/ and her blog: http://jennaglatzer.blogspot.com/.

Anyways, I'm thinking, "Why haven't I considered writing about that before?!" Things from our childhood or past, things we've forgotten ever even happened.... Jenna makes you think with these exercises and I'm sure I'll write on a bigger variety of topics because of it.

Get this book!

Reference Heaven...

Yesterday I received Jenna Glatzer's book, Make a REAL LIVING as a Freelance Writer/How to Win Top Writing Assignments, in the mail.

I ordered it after I saw it on write-from-home.com. There is a link called Recommended Reading for Writers on that site and Jenna Glatzer's book is listed there.

Really, I haven't had as much time as I'd like to read it but I can tell already I'm going to love this book!

Freelancing...Encouragment

Initially, when I started this blog, I think I had the intentions of including more information about actual freelancing. I've included some so far, but I feel like this blog is turning into encouragement for freelance writers.

A writer's world is full of vicious attacks against our writing, our thoughts, our feelings, our heart... that hurts sometimes.

So, if this blog encourages anyone, even just one, than I'm happy.... Because if we're not encouraged, we can't write.

Chin up!