by Andrea Christenson, @andrea143 The church we are attending recently decided to pave their gravel covered parking lot. Years of dealing with mud and dust spurred them on, and when the …
How I Wrote a Novel in Two Weeks
by Melissa Tagg, @Melissa_Tagg Something a little crazy happened last year. Or a LOT crazy. I wrote a full-length novel (we’re talking 98,000 words by the time all was said …
Sketching Scenes
Sarah Sundin, @sarahsundin Ever had one of your characters shake someone’s hand—but a few sentences earlier he was carrying a huge box? Ever had a scene filled with cute banter—but nothing …
Conflict vs. Tension
by Melissa Tagg, @Melissa_Tagg Let’s chat about conflict and tension, shall we? If you’d asked me a few years ago to describe conflict or tension in a story, I might’ve …
Why the past matters.
My men were in charge of the remote this weekend. (Which meant I got a lot of reading done!) But, I did wander down to our home theater to take …