By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers have a plethora of writing projects from which to choose. Life is full of words and ideas that refuse to let us go—overheard conversations, history, local and worldwide events, movies, and other publications. Even when we dream, we are filling our imagination with ways to…

by Alycia W. Morales   @AlyciaMorales Networking at a conference is one of the best things you can do for your writing career. But if you're new, you may not know where to start when you enter a room filled with a few hundred people. Especially if you're like most writers…

By Penny Reeve My memories of starting out as a writer feel very isolated.  I remember a stack of ‘How To Write’ books from the library, a notebook of story fragments and a mountain ideas. But when it came down to it, there was just me.  I didn’t know anyone…

By Sandra Kay Chambers @PrayWaves Like most young children, my pre-school daughter was often impatient. Early on I found a fun way to help her work on learning patience. I’d have her sit down, fold her hands together and we’d sing this verse from one of her favorite Veggie Tale…

By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted Stop it. Please, stop it.  I’ve seen discouraging post after post on conference sites and social media, and it upsets me to see things like, “My skills will never improve? Am I even meant to be a writer? Who wants to read my work anyway?” So,…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt One year when I attended the Iditarod Sled Dog Race Conference for Teachers in Anchorage, Alaska, a teacher told of an airplane ride she and several of the Iditarod sled dogs took with the Iditarod Air Force from a remote checkpoint in western Alaska to…