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What Makes You Shine? What Brings You Joy?

Tell us what and where your happy place is

Nancy Blackman, MASF
4 min readAug 2, 2022

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What makes you jump out of bed in the morning with joy? Is there a passion that you are a part of or something you do that makes you shine?

Tell us about it!

Write a poem, a fiction story, an essay, or some form of writing. Be creative, if you like. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what makes you the happiest version of yourself.

An Example

I love to write. Sitting at my laptop, tapping away is pure joy. Do I occasionally have writer's block? Of course! But writing is where my soul comes alive. Writing also refreshes my soul. I am most at home when I am writing… even Medium tutorials 🤪.

I love weaving words together and my prayer is always that my words will be a soothing salve to my readers.

I began writing as a kid. First, it was poetry, then I moved to writing short stories as a young adult. Later, I moved to writing my memoir (still in progress).

My vocation and passion are to create safe spaces for you, where you can understand how and why you were created. Because I’m not much of a talker — it’s the extreme introvert thing —…

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Nancy Blackman, MASF
Nancy Blackman, MASF

Written by Nancy Blackman, MASF

Boosted & 8x Top Writer. Owner: Refresh the Soul publication. Editor: The Shortform and Poetry Playground. Published in: “Mixed Korean: Our Stories" — Kindle.

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