On Writing | Vicki Hinze

Our Most Valuable Resource

by Vicki Hinze | Oct 16, 2015 | On Writing

Our Most Valuable Resource By Vicki Hinze Demands are all over us. They’re all over everyone else, too. In the workplace, there’s a huge shift going on and, with it, the demands on us grow more numerous and varied and, well, more demanding. The once optional is now...

Never Forget

by Vicki Hinze | Sep 11, 2015 | My Faith Zone, My Kitchen Table, On Writing, Thinking Aloud

Fourteen years ago, our nation was attacked. Nearly 3000 people were killed. We bear the scars and we remember. That day, we made a promise to never forget. Today, Patriot’s Day, a national day of service and remembrance, we honor the fallen. Those who rushed in...

5 Favorite Writing Tips

by Vicki Hinze | Aug 28, 2015 | On Writing

1. How-to choose which book to write. Before you decide to write a specific book, ask yourself: “If this is the last book I write, is it the one I want to have been my last book?” Every book you write requires that depth of devotion to give it your best. If the...

Summer Living Might Be Easy But the Writing Is…

by Vicki Hinze | Aug 21, 2015 | On Writing

Summer. We anticipate it, dream about it—and during those bleak, blustery winter days, we shiver and crave it. We build these images in our minds of warm, lazy days when we lean back under the shade of an old craggy oak with a pen and pad or our...

Personal Power and a License to Fail (Your Way to Success)

by Vicki Hinze | Aug 14, 2015 | On Writing

It never ceases to amaze me how often other people tell us what we can and can’t do. What is and is not acceptable, normal, or even possible. Often, people have come to me for help in getting their heads on straight because someone else has muddled them,...

3 REASONS WHY WE TALK AND TALK AND NOBODY LISTENS

by Vicki Hinze | Aug 7, 2015 | On Writing

We all have a voice and a need to speak. But we also have a need to be heard, and when we aren’t, we get frustrated. Sometimes we get angry, sad, depressed, and sometimes we just give up. Why bother talking if nobody listens, anyway? QUESTIONS If we’re...