Celebrating 25 Years
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Lee Warren did the math. At the end of 2024, somewhere around November/December, Wordsowers will be twenty-five years old. Throughout the year we’ll post pictures and reminisce about the good old days. We’ll invite some of your favorite people to be guest bloggers on this website and speakers at some of the monthly meetings. We’ll end the year with an Anniversary/Christmas party in December.
Congratulations Wordsowers Christian Writers Group. Happy Twenty-fifth Anniversary.
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Ignite the Flame in Your Writing at the February Meeting
Thursday, February 22nd at 7:00 p.m.
Omaha Christian Center, Fellowship Hall
4215 N. 92nd Avenue
| Omaha, NE 68134The leadership team’s desire is to encourage and motivate you as a writer. Here are some ways you can help us to help you “fan into flame” your gift of writing in 2024. At the February meeting we’re asking you to do three things: 1) be prepared to share; 2) share your ideas for future meetings that you feel will help you in your writing endeavors; 3) share any questions you have pertaining to writing or Wordsowers. We may not have all (or any of) the answers but we’ll find someone who does. There will also be a time of food and fellowship. Please note, there’s a change in parking and entering the building. Park in the main parking lot on the south side of the church and enter through the main doors. Follow the signs to the meeting room in the fellowship hall. If you can’t join us in person, Zoom will be available. To join the meeting via Zoom, click on the following link: Wordsowers Christian Writers Group Meetups | Facebook. It’s a closed group so if you haven’t joined the group yet, click on “Invite.” Answer the questions, agree to the guidelines and an administrator will let you into the group. Please do this by 4:00 p.m. the day of the meeting. |
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Despite a computer glitch (ugh), last night’s Wordsowers meeting went well. My head felt like it was about to explode (in a good way, of course) after Lee Warren shared on “Ten Ways to Irritate Your Editor.” We’re now savvier writers when it comes to dealing with editors. Thank you, Lee. If you’d like to receive a copy of his notes, go to Wordsowers Christian Writers Meetup Group. He’ll be posting the notes in the next couple of days. It’s a closed group so, if you’re not already a member, click on “Invite” and answer three questions. You’ll also need to agree to follow group guidelines. An administrator will let you into the group.
Today we welcome Dee Dee Lake as she shares
her thoughts about writing during Christmas.
I have learned to never, never ever, set a writing deadline during the holidays. As an author, I am an observer and keeper of history in the making. My job is to capture moments and honor traditions of God, family, friends, and community.
If my mind is on editing and meeting writing deadlines, I miss the life stories happening around me. I need to be available. I need to be present in the moment as we celebrate.
Christmas is a time to
- watch babies experience their first of many Christmas celebrations;
- meet shy new significant others and introduce them to crazy, loud, busy family;
- see Great Uncle Joe pretend to be gruff when he truly is a teddy bear at heart;
- hear children shriek with joy as they begin their own journey, story, and generation of new traditions and experiences;
- welcome new people into the family and make strangers feel like family;
- remember the reason we have this Christmas season, the birth of Christ, our Redeemer.
Conversations are a vital part of being family and close friends. We recall and laugh about our past celebrations, burnt feast, and disagree over which of Grandma Mattie Lou’s desserts should be “the best in show”. There may be tears, laughter, and raised voices all in the same conversation. During this season we take time to remember those who are with Jesus and those who are out-of-touch. These conversations bind us as family.
Being an author is what God created me to be. He wants me to capture the joy, love, and family.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 reminds me to stay in the moment because there is a time for everything. “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every [a]event under heaven—” NASB
As my family’s scribe, I’m the story-keeper, the one who remember the details and scribbles in journals the precious recollections for future generations. Soon enough it will be time to say good-bye to the out-of-town family and friends and begin to write down all the experiences.
My advice author friends take the time to experience the life around you and then capture the moments with words for the generations to come.
DeeDee Lake is the Marriage Expert, although, she’s only be married for thirty-five years. She speaks and writes about taking your marriage and relationships from ordinary to extraordinary. DeeDee also works with CrossRiver Media as their Author Relations Coordinator. A job she loves because she connects and encourages other authors.
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