About Nancy Rue
Why should you trust me to open up a journey for you and travel it with you, especially a spiritual one?—and writing IS a spiritual pursuit. Yeah, I have degrees in education, I’m a graduate of the Academy for Spiritual Formation, I’ve published 125 books with traditional publishers and spoken to thousands of moms and mini-women and teenage girls and writers over the last 25 years. But those aren’t the creds that qualify me for THIS venture.
After 43 years of combining my spiritual growth with my transformation as a writer, I have (almost by accident!) become the founder and Mama Scribblie of the online group Scribbling Women. There – and here – I can at last bring together the spirituality of writing with the process, the craft, the living of a writerly life and the authentic shaping of a career. It’s an honor to both mentor my fellow Scribblies and continually learn from them.
On this website, I open the benefits of the Scribbling world to all writers who want to live that writerly life. While our focus is on women writers, guys can benefit here too. Do I have a “license” to lead? Who needs one! I DO have a writerly life that I hope qualifies me. Here’s how I live it.
My home is on a lake in Tennessee where I hang with my husband Jim and our chocolate lab Gibbs. My mind does its work in my studio overlooking said lake where does and bucks and fawns and cardinals and finches and herons provide my inspiration. My body loves loose tea (Bags? What?!) and yoga and a big leather chair by the fire and a saggy hammock. My friends and I are jazzed about coffee dates, bookstore wandering, whine and cheese parties and laughing in unladylike fashion (complete with snorts) when we gather virtually or in person.
My dearest longings are to own a card catalogue cabinet. Spend more time with my daughter Marijean and my grandchild Mozz who live far away. Make the Hildegard of Bingen pilgrimage. Walk the labyrinth in the Chartres Cathedral. Become wholly my authentic self in union with God.
And to share that wholeness journey with you. I’m glad you’re here.
Nancy’s current writing is represented by Don Pape at Pape Commons: don@papecommons.com
