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Writing is like every other job. It is about relationships.
I was emailing a writer today with under the auspices of my official editorial duties for TheHighCalling.org. And I just stopped mid email. I was suddenly overwhelmed by how much fun it was to work with this writer. He works hard, pursues excellence, and lives with integrity. He doesn’t make excuses. He doesn’t get defensive. But he’s not spineless either. He is so giving. He is so gracious with his work.

As an editor I love to work with writers who are generous like that.

That’s when it really hit me. Good writers give themselves away.

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So here we are. The earth returns to approximately the same spot in space each January and begins a new trek around the sun. And we all say to ourselves, “This year, I’ll get it right.”

We’ve got a clean slate. A blank page. A new accounting register. And we’ve got plans to make the world work a little bit better. This year we’ll finish that novel. We’ll submit until our tongue bleeds from licking envelopes. We’ll walk step by step through Randy Ingermanson’s Snowflake Method.

It’s a good time to remember Proverbs 21:31.

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