Why does Alice write?
Alice believes reading is the most critical catalyst for writers. She believes understanding the soul-touching feeling from an outstanding story inspires us to produce concepts and conversations raging in our heads as writers. Imagination holds no stop sign. Our minds are on overdrive. We fall in love with trees, flowing brooks, and ocean waves crashing against jagged rocks. She is a writer.
Alice says, “If you’re writing, keep writing. With every sentence, paragraph, and page you complete, you will become a better writer.” As a Word Weaver president, she has a passion to come alongside people who wake in the middle of the night with words lighting their brains afire with ideas for their next article, book, or screenplay. As part of a Christian-based writer’s critique group, she encourages and keeps one another accountable for the very best writing that can be put on paper, knowing God has a plan for our desire to write. Our words will glorify Him. If just one person sighs or laughs or even cries when they read our work, it’s worth the hours and hard work our writers put into their craft. The real triumph lies in the quality of writing, not the act itself.
Alice contributes to a wide range of anthology books. You can find some of the books that contain her stories here: Chicken Soup for the Soul, Donna Goodrich Anthologies, Grace Publishing Anthologies, Guidepost, Inspire Christian Writers, Little CAB Press, and others.
Has the question been answered? Maybe not, but writing something God approves of, something ultimately to be for His glory, is my goal. If one of the poor choices Alice has written about, or her testimony of how God works in her life, or what she has learned from seventy-five years of life, helps another individual in some small way, then the question has been answered. Amen!
“Midlife Miracle” was published in the Wordsmith Journal Magazine. Other anthologies are “God Meets Needs”, “God Still Meets Needs”, and “Attitude Of Gratitude”.
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