Keep Your Writing Muscle in the Springtime of Its Life By D.L. Koontz, @DLKoontz In their terrific book, Younger Next Year, authors Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D explain that as we age, we send signals to our body to enter either the spring or the winter of our…

By Cindy Sproles, @CindyDevoted It happens. Sometimes the words simply dry up. It’s not writer’s block. You have ideas. There are sentences that hit the page – but when they say nothing . . . when words just don’t flow as they should. What then? Writers are abundantly creative and…

by Lynn H. Blackburn, @LynnHBlackburn November is National Novel Writing Month. Thousands of writers all over the world have determined to write 50K words in thirty days. There are pros and cons to NaNoWriMo, but one very definite “pro” is that it demands you cease all forms of procrastination and…

By Lindsey Brackett, @lindsbrac I majored in theater. Actually, I majored in Interdisciplinary Studies, which is a fancy way of saying I couldn’t make up my mind between theater, English, and education. So I studied all three and called it a secondary drama teacher’s major. I’ve never taught high school…

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.…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills While contemplating my next writing project, I took a critical look at myself, and I didn’t like what the mirror revealed. I had flabby arms. Some of you call these bat wings or fly-zones. I refer to them as dangling participles, nothing I want on me…