by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt My husband has a private pilot’s license which gives him the authority to take an airplane up in the sky, fly it around, and land it safely. When he is behind the controls of a plane, he is the Pilot in Command (PIC). Sometimes he…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Have you ever looked at your writing journey as a process of taking the land of writing little by little instead of all at once? Let me explain what I mean.  After I completed my first book for middle grade readers, I knew without a…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Lately, I've thought about persevering in our writing journey when we'd rather give up. When we've hit one too many walls in our attempts to achieve something we have our heart set on achieving. When one too many rejections come back from the submissions we…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt As writers, when the writing way is steep in front of us and the challenge hard, do we concentrate on the incline of creating, believing it insurmountable, or do we keep putting one foot in front of the other, conquering the mountain one step at…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Lately, I've thought about something Sir Isaac Newton discovered in the 1600s. An action comes before a reaction. If we expect the automatic door at the store to open, we have to step forward and activate the mechanism which opens the door. Staring at the…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Do writers have anything in common with King David? According to a keynote speaker at the North Texas Christian Writers Conference ten years ago, the answer is yes. And I would agree with her. In the summer of 2010 I attended one of my very…