By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Each January as I list my writing goals in my new planner, I write down a question on the page above the list of those goals: How will you write this year to change the world? The question may be rather rhetorical as it serves to…

By Heather Kreke @HKreke What environment works best? Figure out the environment that is most conducive to your concentration. Do you need total quiet, or some kind of background noise? I have a lot of friends that listen to music when they write, but I just can’t seem to do…

by Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes, Ed.D. @khutch0767 He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection (Psalm 91:4 NLT). When I faced a life-threatening illness, I spent a month in a secluded ICU room for neurological traumas. I was the…

by Lynn H. Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn I love being able to talk to new writers and give them some encouragement. I love sharing from my own experience—the things that worked and the things that didn’t. But here’s the scary part. I still have no idea what I’m doing. There are a lot…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin For many years, I’ve known about the Catch-22 of publishing. The Merrian-Webster dictionary defines Catch-22 as “a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule.” Several years ago in Spokane, I taught a workshop…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 You might say yes. How many of us have cried when we’ve been frustrated with the writing process? Or when we’ve been in the editing stage and just wanted to finish? But have you ever cried when you wrote something because you realize full force just…