We’re writers. We love words. Characters. Conflict. Beginnings. Endings. The Muddled Middle — maybe not so much. But despite our love for writing, the stories we long to tell, there are …
May You Prosper as a Writer
Don’t you love it when God surprises you? Well, God set me back in my red leather chair a few mornings ago … all because of one little word. I …
The ACFW Conference: Wishing You Were There?
There comes a time in every writer’s life when you are in one of these two categories: You are at the writers conference — and you’re posting non-stop photos on …
Writer’s Crash: How to Recover When You Hit the Wall During Rewrites
I pushed SEND on the rewrites for my fifth novel, Almost Like Being in Love, five days ago. During the month that I tore my manuscript apart, I came close …
3 Tips to Help You Describe Your Character’s Eye or Hair Color
Being writers makes us describers. We introduce a main character, knowing we are required to describe how our hero or heroine or villain looks, sounds, yes, even how they smell. …