-
Remembering Those Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice for Our Country
-
Love, Listen, & Write
@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…
[ Read More ] -
Dreaming Writing Dreams and the Long, Slow Obedience
@LisaCarter27 Ten years ago, God put it on my heart to get serious about this secret dream of writing I’d had since I was a child. In fact, He compelled me to take the stories swirling in my imagination and write them down. Thus far, God has blessed me with the…
[ Read More ] -
Homonyms for Writers: Did You Sea/See There/Their Mistake?
@CindyDevoted Homonym– A word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air or bear and bare. I love editors. They’re a breed all their own. A bit OCD and a bit of the perfectionist’s mentality, they’re the eyes…
[ Read More ] -
Trust the Closed Publishing Doors as Much as the Open Ones
@JennyLCote Memorize this right now: This is MY doing. (I Kings 12:24) So far we’ve explored why we write. And we’re willing to write even if no one will ever read it, Soli Deo Gloria. All that’s left is to let God call the shots from here. I’m about to…
[ Read More ] -
Kurt Vonnegut’s Fourth Rule for Writing Fiction
@ADGansky 4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. –Kurt Vonnegut I love the simplicity Vonnegut uses when asserting his rules, but sometimes I wonder if we need a little extra, especially for beginning writers. At first, this rule just makes perfect sense, but if…
[ Read More ]