Category: Writer’s Life

  • Comfort Zone/Chocolate Zone

    By Rhonda Rhea, @RhondaRhea   Think chocolate is not the answer? Maybe you’re not asking the right questions. Okay, I do know chocolate is not really the answer to all the world’s problems. But it does sort of make a challenge a bit more palatable. Chocolate-coating our discomforts—couldn’t hurt, right?…

    [ Read More ]
  • Writing Through Tragedy

    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 ]
  • Writing in an Echo Chamber

    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 ]
  • Skydiving and Skywriting

    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 ]
  • Get Started

    By Brad Bloom, @faithfitnessmag, Publisher, Faith & Fitness Magazine   My wife still does it the old-fashioned way. Most nights she reaches into her nightstand and pulls out a spiral bound notebook to make her next journal entry. It’s nothing fancy and I think in many ways that is a…

    [ Read More ]
  • 5 Things to Do When You’re Not Writing

    By Lindsey Brackett, @lindsbrac   We all have those days. The ones where fingers seem stiff or the keyboard is too sticky to deal with. Days when plots are stuck and characters stale and ideas elusive. I wouldn’t call it writer block exactly. More like writer delay. These days I…

    [ Read More ]