By Lucinda Secrest McDowell, @LucindaSMcDowel Will we ever get used to hearing that there has been a mass murder of innocent people? That a hurricane has utterly destroyed an entire town or island? That in some utterly unimaginable way evil has been perpetrated on God’s creation? I hope not.…
[ Read More ]By Eddie Jones, @EddieJonesTweet Jesus told us to go into the world and preach the gospel, but as Christian writers published predominantly by Christian publishers, too often we only write in an echo chamber to readers who already know and have accepted the Good News. What can we do to…
[ Read More ]By Deborah Clack @deborah_clack My stomach dropped, but my feet were still on the ground. Staring at a man who was four inches shorter than my five feet nine, all I could think to myself was, “This is not who I thought I would be jumping out of an…
[ Read More ]by Edie Melson @EdieMelson In the beginning God created… Genesis 1:1 My mother is an artist, and I’ve always admired the sure strokes she uses as she applies color to canvas. The picture didn’t just happen, dictated by the tools she used or the circumstances. It was dictated by the…
[ Read More ]By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills While contemplating my next writing project, I took a critical look at myself, and I didn’t like what the mirror revealed. I had flabby arms. Some of you call these bat wings or fly-zones. I refer to them as dangling participles, nothing I want on me…
[ Read More ]by Edie Melson @EdieMelson [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="- @EdieMelson on @BRMCWC #writing #pubtip"]Too many or too few? Word count from a writer's perspective[/tweet_box] As working writers, our lives sometimes seem governed by word count. We use these numbers to set goals, define projects and sometimes even determine our victories. But…
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