By Sarah Van Diest, @SarahVanDiest I feel incomplete at times without my pen and paper, without my white mirror. As if walking away from it I forget what I look like. Returning to my writing after a time of being away feels like coming home. The reality words on the…

by Alycia W. Morales     @AlyciaMorales   Not everyone likes to read, but if you're going to write books, you really should be reading. Reading books within your chosen genre helps you to get a feel for what readers desire in novels of similar type. The settings. The action. The characterizations.…

  by Katy Kauffman, @KatyKauffman28   Light traveled from all over the world to settle on Black Mountain, North Carolina. Hundreds of light bearers—Christian writers—gathered at Ridgecrest to learn about the craft of writing, pitch projects, and share ideas and fellowship. The intensity of the light glowed like the sun…

By Bethany Jett, @BetJett   When you’re traveling, there are simple truths that must be acknowledged. Your agenda is not your own. Your time is not your own. Your space is not your own. If you’re traveling with children, your meal choices and radio preferences in the car are not…

By Rhonda Rhea, @RhondaRhea     I’m just not really a tattoo kind of gal. Sorry. But if ever I did get one, I’d want a ballerina skirt. One around each upper arm. I would want them entirely for the satisfaction of going in and asking for “two tutu tattoos.”…

by Lindsey Brackett, @LindsBrac   Probably my most Facebook engagement (post-algorithms) in February came from asking how we could best watch the Olympics without a regular cable provider. Usually, I don’t miss television. Netflix, Prime, and Redbox get it done. But every two years I plan to buy an antenna…