Jennifer Hallmark

For the last year, I have been posting articles on-line. You mean you’ve been selling articles and making tons of money? That is a good question. No, not yet, but I have my name and articles all over the internet, over one hundred and sixty times that is. What do I mean by articles? How have I done this? Why? How? Let me answer your questions one by one…

Margie walked into the break room and found Debra talking to Jill. Immediately Jill grew silent, said hi to her and left the room. Debra just stood there, looking confused. “Anything wrong?” Margie asked. “Yes. Things at church have gotten weird and I am not sure what to do,” Debra admitted. “Sit down and tell me about it...

“Mom, do I have any clean blue jeans?” my daughter yells from her room. "Did you wash any?” I reply. “I’ve been so busy. I work full time you know.” “I work too.” “But Mom…” This is a typical conversation in our “almost” empty nest...

I walk through my quiet home on the way to the laundry room. Washing a small load of clothes, I carry the towels I folded earlier to the bathroom to put them under the sink. Music from the satellite TV is softly playing in the background. Going outside to sit on the front porch, I feel an odd mixture of peace, pain and boredom. I live in an “almost” empty nest...

A sermon at church preached on this verse brought it to the forefront in my mind. To be well pleasing to God…hmmm…is that really possible? Paul, who is writing a letter to the church at Corinth, tells them that he is making it his aim so it is possible. It is not only possible but should be our aim also. How do we become well-pleasing to God?

One of the first things I learned when I began pursuing a career in writing was to show, don’t tell. I wasn’t sure at first if I understood what that meant but as I continued writing and learning it slowly became clear. I would find myself telling the readers what I wanted them to think and feel and experience instead of showing them through creative writing...

The art of writing. This is a subject that will take more than one week to talk about. We have talked about many other aspects to deal with publishing, promoting and becoming a career writer but need to spend a few weeks on the actual writing itself. There are three important lessons I have learned during this writing journey that I can pass on to you...

I want to begin this article with a little story about the difficulty I had at this point of my career, starting my own website. Somehow in my fantasy scenario of what writing consisted of, I had not considered promoting my own work and putting it out there for people to read and like or dislike...

It is Saturday; the day after the Lady Hornets won the state 2A championship in basketball. We had made the long trek down to Birmingham with the other Hornet faithful and watched a well-earned victory. There was a certain sadness, however, with most of the starting line-up being seniors. These are girls who are about to venture on to college, a career or maybe a marriage and a family. Like I said, it’s Saturday.