{"id":1994,"date":"2021-09-23T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:23:19","slug":"writing-your-story-can-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2021\/09\/23\/writing-your-story-can-change-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Your Story Can Change Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started writing\u00a0my story<\/a>\u00a0years ago; long before I was anywhere near\u00a0a book contract<\/a>\u00a0or a marketing team, I felt that the Lord was inviting me into a process of writing my story down and–in the process–meeting him in the middle of it.\u00a0I’m not sure I’ve done\u00a0anything more powerful in\u00a0my personal spiritual journey than write my memoir.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Memoir is the genre that I love the most, because it’s the genre that allows us–even gently forces us–to re-examine the lives that we have been living as we write them down on the page.<\/strong>\u00a0A good memoir isn’t autobiography, and it isn’t a personal journal. It’s the true story of our lives written in such a way that others can understand, access, and be changed by it.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure there’s a more dynamic form of the written word.<\/p>\n

Our God is the God of story, and he loves making himself known through our stories; it’s how he’s wired us.<\/strong>\u00a0We start loving stories as children, and we inherently know when a story has a satisfying or unacceptable ending, because we were made to long for resolution, peace, and hope.<\/p>\nOur God is the God of story, and he loves making himself known through our stories. <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n

If you’ve always wanted to write your story, or if you’ve been wondering how you can tell your story in a meaningful way, I’m going to suggest that writing your memoir might be one of the most powerful things you can do in your personal journey with Jesus.<\/strong>\u00a0Down the road, might your story impact hundreds or thousands of people? I hope so! But in these days and months, writing your story will transform you most of all. I know that it has transformed me; I got to see Jesus at work all over again as I’ve written my memoir over the past years.<\/p>\n

I just opened registration for the\u00a0Writing with Grace Memoir course<\/a>\u00a0that starts in October.<\/strong>\u00a0To say that I’m thrilled about this class is an understatement; I’m practically jumping out of my chair!<\/p>\n

I’d love for you to join me over at\u00a0Writing with Grace<\/a>–you can even see the video that we created just for this course. And because of the craziness of the last year and a half, I’m offering this course at 25% off–for everyone. I think we all need the chance to write our stories.<\/p>\n

So, if you’ve been aching to write your story, this is your time. I can’t wait to\u00a0see you there<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\nRegistration is open for Writing with Grace: Memoir! www.writingwithgrace.com #amwriting <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n

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I started writing\u00a0my story\u00a0years ago; long before I was anywhere near\u00a0a book contract\u00a0or a marketing team, I felt that the Lord was inviting me into a process of writing my story down and–in the process–meeting him in the middle of it.\u00a0I’m not sure I’ve done\u00a0anything more powerful in\u00a0my personal spiritual journey than write my memoir. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[682,840,23],"tags":[668,950,951,952,949,868,841,707],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-writing","category-still-waiting-book","category-writing","tag-ann-swindell","tag-christian-memoir","tag-getting-my-book-published","tag-gospel-centered-writing","tag-how-to-write-your-story","tag-memoir","tag-still-waiting","tag-writing-with-grace","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WWG.Your-story-matters.image_.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}