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Writing a book can deeply grow your relationship with God and yourself - it completely changed my life
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Jemimah Wright2022-09-30T08:30:00
Many people find writing cathartic but, as she was working on a fictional story, Woman Alive’s deputy editor Jemimah Wright assumed that wouldn’t apply to her. But in fact, over the ten years she penned her novel, Isabella’s Voyage, her relationship with herself and God completely changed.
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