By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky Flannery O’Connor is one of my favorite writers of all time. I’m a bit of a fanboy. So when she writes about writing, I pay attention. In her essays Mystery and Manners, she says, “I often ask myself what makes a story work, and what makes…

by Lindsey Brackett @LindsBrac I hope you’ve enjoyed these short introductions into the Enneagram and have found the information useful to typing your characters (and maybe yourself). My favorite thing about the Enneagram is no one is ever all or nothing. By carrying tendencies of the nine different types, we…

by Lindsey Brackett @LindsBrac I hope these short introductions into the Enneagram are helping you understand your characters and relationships better. Remember, we all carry tendencies of the nine different types, making us (and our characters) incredibly complex. But rather than focus on personality traits, the Enneagram begs you to…

by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Varying degrees of point of view (POV) allows the writer to establish emotional distance between the reader and the character. The distance is set in direct relationship to the role the character plays in the story, the mood, and voice.  The POV character takes the spotlight…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson Several months ago I hit a milestone on my person blog, The Write Conversation. I passed the 3000th blog post published.  I wrote that number and then had to stop and let the reality sink in. I had no idea what God had planned when I…

by Ramona Richards  @RamonaRichards It’s the one thing that will keep writers up at night, haunted with questions. It’ll make us want to pick apart a scene, even after it’s been submitted and sitting happily on the editor’s desk. It makes us second-guess our wisdom, our knowledge, and our skill.…