@EdieMelson Have you noticed the phenomenon that occurs when you confess you’re writing a book?  It doesn’t matter if you’re an established author with thirty-plus books under your belt, or someone working on a first novel.  Announce you’re writing a book, and you’ve opened yourself up for unsolicited advice.   [tweet_box…

@LynnHBlackburn I don’t know what kind of writer you are, but I’m the kind of writer that prefers to have at least an hour, preferably a couple of hours, to focus on my story. In a perfect world this would happen every time I sat down to write. I have a…

@LindsBrac For the rest of the year, we’re discussing the Enneagram as a tool for building authentic (and flawed) characters. I am by no means a psychologist or an expert, but I have found that a general understanding of this ancient personality-typing tool helps me build better characters. There's a…

@CindyDevoted Let me be clear. There are a hundred different ways to write a devotion. Some are meant for the shorter devotions while others are meant for the longer ones, but regardless of the length, a devotion must have a couple of particular elements to make it a devotion and…

@LindsBrac Before you ask, I totally intended the pun. Character development can be one of the most interesting—and challenging—parts about writing fiction. As writers, we get to experience the world in so many different ways, through so many varying personalities. Then we give those experiences to our readers—and show them…

@KatyKauffman28 If a great composer took your writing and set it to music, what would its melody be? Our writing emits a song of its own. It could be the thunderous, foreboding tones of a warning; the quick tempo of a call to action; or the soothing notes of a…