By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky Some time ago, I had my Creative Writing students draw up a map of the town in which their story takes place. I had them label streets, buildings, homes, shops, etc. The response was greatly varied, from island villas to battleships, to starships, to fantasy worlds…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 Lightning flashed through the closed curtains, and thunder cracked right outside my window. Why is it I can’t fall asleep on the nights when I need sleep the most? I pulled my curtains open to watch the light show, and then quickly shut them so I…

By Lindsey P. Brackett @LindsBrac While we may have finished our series on typing your characters with the Enneagram, this ancient tool for understanding yourself and others still has plenty of information worth examining. Especially with the trying times in which we all now find ourselves, recognizing points of stress…

By Karynthia Glasper-Phillips @QT_HisTime In a conversation with some fellow authors and novice writers  I made the statement; “Writers are warriors, answering the call to write is not for wimps.” The expression on their faces varied as each scrambled to remark or question what I meant.  Communicating the gospel in any…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky One of the first things an amateur writer hears is the age-old adage, “Write what you know.” It’s a simple statement, suggested plainly, as if we must take it at face value, but it’s an assertion that goes far beyond what we first take it to…

by Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales Many people love to write and choose to do so as a career. It has its pros and cons, but the joy we get from writing makes it worth those. The question is, which of those pros and cons are scary? [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#writing #writerslife"]8…