By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted I honestly never thought I’d need to address this subject, but as I grow older and experience the ups and downs of aging, like bad knees and high blood pressure, it becomes increasingly vital that we stop and take note. It seems the writer in us…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt What do we do when our writing runs aground?  We truly believe God has called us to travel this writing journey alongside him, but then he steps back, and allows difficulties to test what seems to contradict everything we felt God promised. We feel like…

by Lynn H. Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn I never dreamed that we would be one of “those” families—the kind whose kids have sports almost every night of the week. But then I had boys and they turned into ballplayers. Flag football, basketball, baseball. They can’t get enough. And the truth is, neither…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin Wherever you are in the writing world: brand new or experienced every writer needs publishing connections to editors, agents, promoters and their fellow writers. Attending a conference like the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference is a great way to be connected but that only happens…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky Charles Baxter, in Burning Down the House, Essays on Fiction, devotes an entire chapter to a principle he calls “Stillness.” To paraphrase a rather lengthy and well documented argument, he proposes that stillness, a moment in fiction where action subsides and characters/narrators focus on the minutiae of their…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 I can’t help but think of Christmas decorations even in September. After all, there’s less than four months between now and the most wonderful time of the year. If we start now, we have time to prepare Christmas presents (I make mine), find just the right…