by Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales In 2010, I attended my first Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. It was my first writers conference. I was a total newbie who had always dreamed of being a writer but had never pursued it as a career. Sure, I’d been writing since I was…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt When my husband and I attended our first Grand Prix race, I discovered eleven lessons we writers can apply to our writing.  It pays to know the lay of the land before you set out As this was our first time at the race we…

By Karynthia Glasper-Phillips @QT_HisTime In a conversation with some fellow authors and novice writers  I made the statement; “Writers are warriors, answering the call to write is not for wimps.” The expression on their faces varied as each scrambled to remark or question what I meant.  Communicating the gospel in any…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Someone once told me that all crazy women have super-thin eyebrows. I don’t see how I could even begin to argue with that logic. So I pencil. And I pencil strong. I feel I have a lot to prove. That’s one reason doing makeup in the car…

by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers seldom become successful and create a marketable book—overnight. At least that wasn’t my experience. Highways, speed bumps, and traffic lights are a part of the writing life. The victories and triumphs are waylaid with rejection slips, disappointments, and lots of rewrites. But when the first…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson I had always believed that I needed at least an hour, and preferably three, to make any progress at all with my writing. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In the past year, I’ve learned how to use the time I have, even if it’s just fifteen…