by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 I wanted to be clever, not practical. My goal in crafting blog post titles was to think of the snazziest title I could, even if it wasn’t search engine friendly. It took a few gentle suggestions from a blog editor for me to embrace a different…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea The other night I was jolted out of bed by one of those monstrous thunder cracks. I think you can still see the fingernail marks on the ceiling over my bed. It was one of those rattle-the-windows, race-the-heart, vibrate-you-right-down-to-the-spirit kind of thunder explosions. I sensed people all…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers experience times of stress and have no clue how to avoid or eliminate it. We hear breaks from a normal routing are essential to our professional, personal, and psychological life, so we might give in to an hour here and there. But never a vacation.…

by Blythe Daniel @ByltheDaniel One of the most challenging areas for writers is coming up with a unique book idea. I mean if Ecclesiastes 1:9 is true (and it is!) then there is nothing new under the sun but then where does that leave me for a book that there…

By Leilani Squires Freelance writers get asked to do a lot, from “Can you look at this short story real quick,” to “Can you edit this 25-page proposal by tomorrow?” to “Will you bring the main dish to the dinner? You’re home all day so you can cook, right?” We…

By Darlene L. Turner @darlenelturner My Father examines every branch in Me and cuts away those who do not bear fruit. He leaves those bearing fruit and carefully prunes them so that they will bear more fruit. John 15:2 (VOICE) Spring has arrived and with it comes clean-up of debris left from…