Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Writing for the Soul conference, Denver, Colo.
How do the writing tools and skills we’ve discussed this week affect aspects of your life beyond the craft of writing?
The following two questions might help you to consider a response:
What have you learned at a writers conference that helped you with raising children, managing time, or with your day job?
How has online networking, blogging, changed your personal or spiritual life?
The online writing community has forever changed me by giving me the tools to grow and the encouragement to keep trying. Blogging has changed my life because I’m in a group blog with several other ladies. We’ve become sisters.
How has online networking, blogging, changed your personal or spiritual life?
It has on many levels, actually. I’ve met so many people I normally wouldn’t have and I’ve been able to pray for them. Yep, when their status mentioned something that tugged at my heart, I lifted them up in prayer.
It’s shown me, that throughout all the not so great stuff on the internet, we can be a light, however small, we can shine online!
My five grown children live on three different continents, so the personal aspects of blogging and social networking should be obvious. I can sit down for a face-to-face chat with a three-year-old grandchild in Brazil, or see how fast the new baby is growing in England. Socially, I can point to two friends inside China that I’ve never met, but we share common interests. Spiritually, it allows me to pray for situations in the lives of friends I haven’t seen in a couple of decades. That’s a pretty amazing score for a tool I never saw for the first 45 years of my life.