by Lynn H. Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn Book deadlines are a painful reality for published authors. If you do an internet search for how to handle a writing deadline, you’ll find lots of fabulous advice. While the suggestions vary, they will inevitably include some version of the following: Don’t panic. Stay positive. Stay…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin What if you could write a magazine article which could be published year after year in different publications? In the magazine community, these articles are called evergreen because they can be used over and over. To write this type of article takes a bit of planning…

by Ane Mulligan  @AneMulligan On a writer’s loop, a recent topic raised some interesting comments. The question? Should our work be clean or moral? Well, yes … depending. I don’t mean to be ambiguous … or maybe I do. I think the answer depends on what God has called you…

By A.C. Williams by @acw_author Writing is a solitary art form. There’s no getting around it. Nobody else is going to make you sit down at the computer and hammer out the day’s needed word count. And even if you attend conferences and critique groups and brainstorm with the best,…

By Candyce Carden @CandyceDeal I studied the cover of the slim book in my hand: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art. I was intrigued.  Not only by the title but also by the striking design. Likewise, the author. I knew Madeleine L’Engle from her Newberry Medal-winning A Wrinkle in…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Story Payoff is not a writer gripping the handle of a slot machine and hoping the reader gets it. That friends, would be a gamble. Who wants to risk their story, a work of the heart that has taken weeks, months, or years to create? The…