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.…

by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Determining our character’s love language is a step forward in understanding the psychological landscape.  Personality preference indicates the extent of introvert or extravert, how the character communicates, views life, and interprets the world around him/her. But a love language gives us insight into understanding one of…

by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted I’m no good at social media. I’m just an author who wants it to work. I’ve laughed with my dear friend, and social media guru, Edie Melson, that she dragged me into social media kicking and screaming. We know, as authors, social media is vitally important.…

By Penny Reeve I remember it clearly, the day I gave up. The day I ran my hand over the top sheet of my children’s fiction manuscript, shut the folder and slid it out of sight. It was a good book. It had tension, heart, pace and great chapter hooks.…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky One of the first things an amateur writer hears is the age-old adage, “Write what you know.” It’s a simple statement, suggested plainly, as if we must take it at face value, but it’s an assertion that goes far beyond what we first take it to…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt While driving north through Alabama on Interstate 85 last year to attend the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference, my husband and I looked for blossoming mimosa trees. We do this every time we drive to the conference. Most years, the trees are covered with…