@DiAnnMills Many of our characters have a lifeboat filled with tangible items and memories that help them survive challenges. This is where a character travels when the storms of life gather and blow. The psychological connections keep the character grounded, inspired, on-task, encouraged, entertained, pacified, and motivated.  Sometimes the item…

@LisaCarter27 School is out. No more carpool. Schedules are more fluid, and routine is out the window. Until September. . . . But I'll think about that another day. For now, I intend to enjoy the summer season in all of its fullness. Summer is a time of growth, not…

@Tamela_Murray Congratulations! You have made a momentous effort to connect with industry professionals at Blue Ridge, and now your ties are strengthened. You’ve shared with others and learned lots about how to take your career to the next level. And then you arrived home. And then you slept. And after…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson I’m still coming down off the high of the 2019 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference, and while not all of you were there with me, I think there’s some info here you can use. We all need to know how to prioritize our time after…

@CindyDevoted Let me be clear. There are a hundred different ways to write a devotion. Some are meant for the shorter devotions while others are meant for the longer ones, but regardless of the length, a devotion must have a couple of particular elements to make it a devotion and…

@LucindaSMcDowel Summertime and the season for….. writers conferences, book conventions and intense writing sojourns! I have discovered that each time I return to an annual event, it is helpful to use it as an intentional time of evaluation and focus. Some of us have just finished up a fabulous time…