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IWSG Day: Christmas is a-Coming

December 1, 2021 By Jessica Ferguson 9 Comments

I hate to say it but IWSG Day slipped up on me this month. I can hardly believe it’s December 1st. The days are flying by so fast, if I don’t keep a calendar near me I’m a goose, totally lost. So here goes with this month’s post:
Our purpose is: To share and encourage. It’s our pleasure to offer assistance and guidance. IWSG is a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!
We post the first Wednesday of every month. That is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. This group is all about connecting!Let’s rock the neurotic writing world!
Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.
The awesome co-hosts for the December 1 posting of the IWSG are PJ Colando,Diane Burton,Louise – Fundy Blue,Natalie Aguirre, and Jacqui Murray!

Every month, we announce a question that our members can answer. These questions may prompt us to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. The question is ALWAYS optional.

December 1 question – In your writing, what stresses you the most? What delights you?

What stresses me the most? Deadlines and a blank mind.

What delights me? Deadlines and a germ of an idea.

Writing is exciting and fun. If we can’t take pleasure in every aspect of it, what’s the point? After all, isn’t it a little like volunteering for our favorite charity? We’re the volunteer and the charity is the reading world. If we think of it that way, maybe we’ll take some of the pressure off. It’s our game, people. Let’s love it!

That’s all I’ve got for you today but I want to wish you a very wonderful Christmas. I pray you have God’s peace as we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Oh, before I forget: I have some good news to share as soon as I can, and would love for you to sign up for my newsletter. Yep, I was instructed to create a newsletter. I’ve been putting it off for a couple of years but the time has come. I promise I won’t pepper you daily or weekly. I don’t have that much to say, but you can expect to hear from me about once a month. Take this journey with me … One way or another, it’s going to be exciting.

Merry Christmas, my IWSG friends!

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2015 By Jessica Ferguson 1 Comment

ChristmasChristmas Eve, and here I am posting Merry Christmas! Nothing like being a day late and dollar short, huh? But to quote another cliché–better late than never.

We’re rejoicing in the wonder of Christ’s birth, and sending Christmas blessings your way.

Merry Christmas from

Jessica & Jim

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From the Slacker …

December 17, 2013 By Jessica Ferguson Leave a Comment

It’s easy to get out of the habit of blogging. I’ve really been a slacker, haven’t I? In  more ways than one. Hopefully, that will change with the first of the new year. Yes, I’m still alive, and tomorrow I MUST finish up my Christmas shopping–whether I want to or not.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes. Anything here you can relate to?

The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly. ~Oswald Chambers

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success–but only if you persist.  ~Isaac Asimo

The more we fear starting a project, the more difficult the project becomes in our mind. This is self-defeating. ~Rob Parnell

Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.   ~David Nicholls

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good. ~William Faulkner

My Christmas stories are featured on  Pamela Thibodeaux’s blog on Tuesday. I hope you’ll visit and leave a comment.  
Is everyone ready for Christmas?

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2012 By Jessica Ferguson Leave a Comment

 
I hope everyone has a blessed Christmas.
Be safe–be happy,
and enjoy your loved ones.
jess

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