Defining your fictional characters’ voices is important. What is equally vital, though, is grasping your characters’ humanity, the core of their fictional soul. A good way to learn how to do this is by observing an incident through another living person’s eyes. For this exercise, choose your spouse, a relative, or your best friend to play the fictional character in…
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Women Crews Build Homes And Dreams
With hammers in hand, women across the country are coming together to build homes and better futures with families in need. Habitat for Humanity International’s Women Build program, sponsored by Lowe’s, a home improvement retailer, is working to make homeownership a reality. The organization trains women volunteers and the future owners of Habitat homes to construct and maintain simple, decent…
Hope In Humanity
Let us renew our hope in humanity. It’s so easy to lose faith when someone cuts us off on the highway, when a ‘friend’ blows us off (for the second time) and fails to show, when we get burned in a business deal, when a co-worker doesn’t do what they said they were going to do, or when a colleague…
Finding Daily Inspiration In Difficult Times
Daily inspiration helps us to stay focused on God’s love, no matter what else is going on in our daily lives. In today’s world there is such a high level of challenge and rapid change happening for most of us, that it has become even more important to find a way to stay connected with our hearts, and with our…