A Few Quick Questions

Happy Friday! 

So, I've been thinking a lot about how I can utilize this blog more. I love this blog and I love writing on this blog, but at the end of the day, this space isn't for me, it's for you! So I thought what better way to get an idea for how I can make this space even better then to ask those who read my posts! 

First of all, I want to say thank you so much to everyone who has followed me through the years and to everyone who is new to following me on here. You're comments and your views and you clicking the follow button on here means so much to me and I'm so glad you've decided to be a part of my journey. I hope my posts and my writings have been encouraging to you and will continue to be uplifting to you. 

Years ago, back in 2014 I think it was, I started this blog not really having any idea what I was doing. I do that a lot - or I used to at least - I dive into something with no idea how to do what I'm doing. I guess I'm a learn as I go kind of girl. Or I used to be. I feel like I'm getting better at that. Anyways, I originally started this blog because since I can remember I've felt this pull to encourage people with my writing. I've always wanted to write posts or letters or whatever you want to call them full of encouragement and Jesus and the Bible to people. Starting this blog was my way of doing that. Those early posts were... well, they were disastrous and as the years went on the blog shifted into posts about writing and becoming an author and less about Jesus or the sort of Biblical encouragement I had started with. I turned toward encouraging writers in their writing, which is great and something I still hope to do more of. 

Then in August of last year something shifted inside me and I felt this pull to write more faith-based and encouraging posts. And that's exactly what I did. It was uncomfortable and scary for me (and still can be) cus I don't like to be super vulnerable on the internet to people I don't know. But I've come to realize how important our testimonies are and how God can use our circumstances and experiences to encourage and speak to others who may be going through something similar. It was also affirmed in December 2019 when I signed up for Hannah Brencher's Monday Club and then for Grace Anne's Tuesday Letters. I saw what they were doing with their newsletters, speaking into the lives of strangers and encouraging them with their words - encouraging me with words - and I wanted that. I knew that was something I needed to do too, I just didn't know when or how until August rolled around. These last few months have been absolutely incredible. I have loved getting to do the thing that I have wanted to do for so long. I really feel like this is something God had set in my heart for so long and I'm finally at a place where He gave me the green light to go through with it. 

I still dream of starting my own newsletter like the Monday Club or the Tuesday Letters and getting to send encouragement straight to the inboxes of others. I know that's something I want to do, I just don't know when. 

But I'm also an author and a writer of YA fantasy and fiction. I love what I write on here so much, but my first love has always been and I think may always be fantasy and fiction writing. I'm trying to find a way to merge the two on here and on my other platforms (it's harder than you might think to merge a love of writing faith-based encouragement and Young Adult fantasy and science fiction haha). I want to share more of that side of me on here more than just when I do in Monthly Wrap Ups. 

So, all that to say, I have a few questions for you guys. You can either answer them in the comments or you can fill out this quick survey (either way I would really appreciate your impute because this blog is for you more than it is for me!). 

Would you at some point in the future be interested in getting emails once a week from me with an encouraging word in them? 

Do you want to see more writing updates, WIP updates (like the few posts I did for the Archive Series), flash fiction, character profiles, pretty much anything writing related on here? 

Are there any topics you'd want me to cover on here encouragement/faith-based wise? 

Are there any other types of posts you'd like to see from me whether it be bookish or TV shows or writing related or anything else? 

Also, if you'd be interested I do have an author newsletter. I put one out on the first of every month and this month I'm actually starting to put out a second one in the middle of the month with flash fiction or writing updates and things like that. Author Newsletter Sign Up. 

Thank you so much for your help with this! I really appreciate any impute you can give me about what you'd like to see more from me on here! :)