Sometimes we all have to take a step back and admit we’re not ready or not prepared. When this happens to me, I lean on my tribe. This month I am happy to lend this space to the wise words of my friend and fellow writer, Hope Welborn, as I…

By Carol Ghattas Have you ever been around people who think like you or who have the same goals in life? Birds of a feather flock together, and a few years ago, I joined a flock in North Carolina, by attending the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. It’s not…

By the Two Lindas of Personality @LindaGilden @LindaGoldfarb Recently a friend called. “How do you do this?” she demanded. “Do what?” I asked. “How do you sit there all day and write? Don’t you get bored? Are you tired of being by yourself?” I gave her a quick explanation of why…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 It’s beautifully disguised—my little pitfall in the backyard. The fun project? Planting flowers of every season in our back shrub bed. The problem? We took out too much dirt.  In our zeal for this new project, my family removed weeds and clumps of stubborn grass from…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Hey, suspense writer, have you ever been asked why anyone would read Christian suspense? Isn’t suspense a taste of reality, gritty, and violence runs through page after page? How can you manage the genre expectations in a Christian book? If that question hasn’t been posed to…

by @PatNichols16 Nine years after I retired from a twenty-seven-year corporate career, a young woman who had drifted in and out of our lives for two decades tragically lost her life. As a cathartic exercise I began writing a fictional story loosely based on her life, but with a happy…