by @PatNichols16 Nine years after I retired from a twenty-seven-year corporate career, a young woman who had drifted in and out of our lives for two decades tragically lost her life. As a cathartic exercise I began writing a fictional story loosely based on her life, but with a happy…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Forty years. That’s a very long time to wait. But that’s how long Moses spent in the land of Egypt, learning what it meant to be a leader in preparation for the great mission God had in store for him. A mission Moses had no…

By Sandra Kay Chambers @PrayWaves All writers know about the Bottom Drawer—it’s a writer's cemetery! The place where unfinished books and writing projects go to die. I had a book that was stuck in the bottom drawer of my desk for over 10 years. It was about prayer. I knew…

by Ramona Richards @RamonaRichards I’m about to write something that may be a bit controversial, and you are free to disagree with me. But if I hear the question that every writer gets, usually from other writers, again, I may become violent. “You write? Are you a plotter or a…

By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted The writing industry is tough. Since 2008, when the economy collapsed and publishers began to struggle, everything changed. An already tight industry became even tighter. Writers once sought after the thousands of slots for publication and now they vie for the few hundred available. There is…

by Carol Ghattas Have you ever thought about why we consider some people wise? I think one reason is because they have lived enough of life to be able to learn from the good decisions they’ve made as well as the bad. I was questioning myself recently concerning writing. Do…