by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales While scrolling social media recently, I came across a very short statement. Don’t let your struggles become your identity. It stopped my scroll. Have you ever done that? Have you ever given your struggle so much power that you claimed it as part of who…

By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites  I never thought I would or could write for a magazine until I was asked to submit an article to a trade magazine. “What could I contribute?” I said. “Think about it and get back to me.” The editor said. I remembered an instructor at Blue…

[tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#writingcontest #BRMCWC #writing"]Selah Award Finalists for 2024 from @EversonAuthor[/tweet_box] In the category of ANTHOLOGIES, the finalists are: A Thrill in the Air: A Mosaic Christmas Anthology V Deb Elkink, General Editor The Mosaic Collection Dancing in the Rain: Stories to Shelter the Soul Deb Elkink, General Editor…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Laughter is good medicine, my friends, and we laugh a lot in my family. Granted, usually we’re laughing because otherwise we’d be crying. Life has been a struggle for a long season, but rather than wallowing in much-deserved and certainly justified angst and exhaustion, we choose…

by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel You stare at a blank page. Your scribbles are notes that you can’t sort out. You have journals you aren’t sure where to find what you started writing for a book someday. Does your organization of thoughts cause you to feel overwhelmed? I think one of…

by Maggie Wallem Rowe Tell me you haven’t experienced it, too. You attend that writers conference or watch a publishing awards ceremony online, and those unwanted thoughts arrive faster than flies on an apple pie: I’ll never be as good a writer as she is.  Look at all those titles…