by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel I remember listening to the song in the prime of my junior high days. Taking a road trip with my family and rewinding the song on my portable cassette player. El Shaddai by Amy Grant was my song. God Almighty, yes, that was certainly one of…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea You better not pout, I’m telling you why. Because somebody will snap a pic and post it on social media and you’ll have to live with that face forever. And ever. That’s why I try not to show my seasonal angst. And still…every time. Every time I…

By Darlene L. Turner @darlenelturner 5-star? 4-star? 1-star? Most authors cringe over reviews. Should we read them? Or…should we even be writing book reviews? This is a question I ask myself quite often. Why? Because writing book reviews take time. As we all know, time is something we writers cherish. In…

by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted Though taken out of context here, I think the words from Romans can apply to us in any situation.  I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. (Rom. 7:15 NIV) Every writer…

By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Let’s be honest because friends tell each other the truth. Writers are weird. They people watch but many avoid engaging. They drink too much (coffee, mostly), and mutter to themselves or their characters. Writers tend to get way geeked out by particular storylines if they’re fiction…

by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn  As I ran a few errands last week, a car pulled out in front of me. He could have waited, but it wasn’t close enough to warrant laying down on the horn, so I let it go. (As if I could do anything about it in the first…