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10 Powerful Reasons to Keep Praying When You Want to Quit

If you’re struggling with prayer fatigue and fighting discouragement, here are ten powerful reasons to keep praying—even when you want to quit.

by Lori Hatcher | When was the last time you grew weary in prayer and wanted to quit? Maybe you’ve been praying for a prodigal who seems farther from God than ever. Or for a spouse whose heart seems to grow harder and colder. Perhaps you’re in a season of unemployment, infertility, or loneliness, and nothing seems to change...

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How Honest Can I Be with God in Prayer?

David’s prayers modeled the type of transparent dialogue we can have with God, assuring us that we can bring our fear, anger, hurt, and heartbreak to Him.

by Lori Hatcher | Do you ever wonder how honest you can be with God in prayer? On the surface, this question probably seems silly. After all, God knows everything. How could we hide anything from the God who knows our hearts and can read our minds? Yet sometimes, we hold back in prayer. As if our thoughts, emotions, or...

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A Soldier's Prayer by Lori Hatcher |  Father, Thank you for the example of David, the warrior king who poured out his heart to you from the midst of battle. Whether he was running for his life, fighting for his countrymen, or celebrating a victory, his thoughts often turned to you... https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/a-soldier-s-prayer.html

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How to Pray When You Don’t Know How to Pray

Four tips for praying during difficult times.

by Lori Hatcher | Have you ever found yourself in a situation so overwhelming you didn’t know how to pray about it? Ten years into our marriage, my husband, David, lost his job. He went to work one Monday morning and returned an hour later with a pink slip in his hand. We had two preschool aged children, a mortgage, and little savings...

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What About Rejections? Part I

What About Rejections? Part I

Now that we’re ready to dig into our various writing projects and (gulp!) even think about submitting a few…we face a common enemy: Fear of Rejection. To encourage your hearts, our faculty shared some of their rejection stories. Now you can say to yourself, “If they were rejected and look how far they’ve come… I can submit my work too.”

Terri Kelly

“My first rejection letter said my picture book…

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Faculty Focus

  Lori Hatcher is an author, editor, and vibrant Christian. She enjoys her grandchildren, her grandpuppy, and can be impatient as she awaits to see the cover of her next book! As a writer and editor, she has sat on both sides of the writing table. If you want to learn more about how to impress an editor (and what NOT to do) join her at Write2Ignite 2019.

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"Writing a Book Can Be Easy"

“Writing a Book Can Be Easy”

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Increasingly writers are bombarded with advertisements for writing courses or programs claiming to help them produce a book in timeframes as short as 24 hours or a few weeks.

Anyone can come up with ideas that can be copied into sentence-generating templates or outlines and compiled as a “book” – but is this really writing?

At W2I…

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Part III- What is Our Faculty Looking Forward To?

Part III- What is Our Faculty Looking Forward To?

For the last two Thursdays, we’ve been hearing what our team and attendees are looking forward to at the 2019 Conference. Today we hear from some of our faculty. For more information about each one of these workshop leaders, please consult our Faculty page.

Tessa Emily Hall, Author and Associate Agent Hartline Literary Agency

Since I began attending this conference as a teen writer, Write2Ignite…

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