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**The Keep Writing Podcast**

The author of five books, Nika Maples is a writer, speaker, and lupus and stroke survivor who loves to help Christian writers conquer what’s holding them back so they can finish, publish, and market their amazing books.

Latest Episodes:

84: Get Into Alignment Jul 02, 2021

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83: The Shame Eliminator Jun 21, 2021

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82: The Gift of Sabbath Jun 18, 2021

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81: Words Create the Path We Take Jun 16, 2021

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Did you know your words are seeds that will create results in your life?

Listen to find out the ways you may be sabotaging yourself.

To watch the video version of this episode on my YouTube channel, click here.

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80: The Captain and the Kid Jun 14, 2021

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You have more control over your thoughts than you realize.

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79: He Has a Plan Jun 11, 2021

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In this episode, I read an excerpt from Hunting Hope:

“The speed of my answer surprised me when someone recently asked, “What’s next for you?”

“Obedience,” I answered. “That’s always what’s next for me.” Maybe I have finally learned that any other plan won’t work.

Obedience is my plan.

Obedience was the plan for most of the tide-changers in the Bible. This year I made a little project of marking certain themes in the Bible with certain colors. I am a sucker for school supplies, especially supplies in coordinatedcolors. It has crossed my mind that one reason I became apublic school English teacher was to have a valid excuse to

buy new school supplies every fall.

Newly armed with a set of highlighters in eight colors

and a set of matching page tabs, I set out to annotate what

I read in the Bible each morning. I marked passages that related

to teaching. I marked passages that related to speaking

and writing. I marked passages that related to handling adversity.

And I marked passages that related to bearing fruit.

Immediately I realized that I also needed to highlight

all of the passages that related to obedience, because there

were many. I didn’t mark the places that just mentioned

the word obedience; rather, I marked the fantastic and miraculous

stories that came about only because someone had

obeyed.

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78: Prayer & Declarations Jun 09, 2021

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77: Make a Mistake Jun 07, 2021

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76: Make an Attempt Jun 04, 2021

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Is the pursuit of perfection holding you back? I’ve found that many people hesitate to do anything if they aren’t sure that it is going to turn out perfectly.

Maybe one solution for perfection paralysis is simply making an attempt.

I’ll explain what I mean through an excerpt from my book, Everyday Genesis:

“When I taught English in public schools, sometimes students would complain if they didn’t feel they could successfully accomplish the skill I had asked them to practice.

“I can’t!” they’d cry.

“Make an attempt,” I’d answer with a smile.

“But I don’t know what I’m doing!”

“Make an attempt.”

“But I can’t think of anything to write about!”

“Make an attempt.”

I would say this over and over, always cheerfully. I used it as another one of those push-button phrases that help me communicate what is most important to me. Teachers know that most of the time these complaints from students are just excuses.

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