We are well into the 2019 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference and things couldn't be going any better! The excitement is continuing to build toward our Awards Night, this Wednesday, May 22 at 6:45pm. We will be live streaming this event, so even if you can't be present, you…

@ADGansky Start as close to the end as possible. –Kurt Vonnegut Some time ago, I had a student approach me to ask my opinion on something they were working on. The story opened inside a hospital with the birth of a child. I liked the idea immediately, and anticipated some…

by Tammy Karasek @TickledPinkTam We are days away from the 2019 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference—yes days, folks! Are you as excited as I am? By now, you have gone through your checklist of things you need to pack. Hopefully, you have read all of the wonderful blog posts…

@KatyKauffman28 Cindy laughed with the other writers around the table. At least I’m not the only one, she thought. Many of them were also newbies—anxious newbies—at the Blue Ridge conference. She looked at her phone to check the time and noticed that she hadn’t heard her alarm above the roar…

@BisbanoWrites The church is filled with many personality types with different levels of brokenness. We all process information differently, filtered by past experience, hurts, pains, and joys. As authors we desire our writing to point people to Christ. He is the ultimate healer and He will use our words to…

@LindsBrac Last month, we discussed the Enneagram as a tool for building authentic (and flawed) characters. I am by no means a psychologist or an expert, but I have found that a general understanding of this ancient personality-typing tool helps me build better characters. When I wrote my first novel…