by @RamonaRichards For my morning devotions, I use The Upper Room, which I pick up at my local church. However, with the shutdown due to the virus, I didn’t get the July/August issue this month, so I decided to reuse the May/June one. (Yes, I know I can get it…

by Lucinda Secrest McDowell, @LucindaSMcDowel Last fall I submitted the manuscript for my twelfth book. On time. Whew! Because it was on a fast track, and I had already made several travel plans that could not be cancelled, I wondered if I could do it. Through God’s grace, prayer support, diligent…

By James Hannibal @jamesrhannibal You can work a high-tech gadget into a cozy mystery, but that won’t make it a techno-thriller. To be a techno-thriller, a story must have distinct moving parts set up on a collision course that slam together into a perfect mesh. The Vocabulary of Moving Parts…

by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn  I love finding posts I wrote several years ago and seeing where I was in my writing journey and what I was learning. I wish I could tell you that I read them and think, “Wow, I’ve matured so much that this no longer applies to me,”…

By A.E. Pope @AEPopeWriter If you are being completely honest with yourself, you have probably experienced a moment where the success of another writer has caused you to feel this way. At least, I know I have. I would see the success of someone else and be eaten up inside…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky Much to my father’s chagrin, I studied poetry in college. Yes, I’m that guy. What’s worse, I studied it at the post-grad level as well. Pops likes to remind me that poetry is what people write when they can’t write novels. I like to say that novels are…