Category: Writer’s Life

  • Don’t Allow Your Writing Struggles to Become Your Identity

    by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales While scrolling social media recently, I came across a very short statement. Don’t let your struggles become your identity. It stopped my scroll. Have you ever done that? Have you ever given your struggle so much power that you claimed it as part of who…

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  • To Know and Make Known

    by Julie Zine Coleman @JulieZColeman That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death... Philippians 3:10 NASB My husband has many wonderful qualities. But the night I began to fall in love with him, something bigger captured…

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  • The Pronouncedly Pronounced Way

    by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Sometimes I like to use words I don’t altogether understand. It’s so I can sound smarter. And perspicacious, sagacious, and astutaquacious. Yes, I did make up that last one—hoping it would make me sound even astutaquaciouser. I admit, it does get embarrassing when I mispronounce a word…

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  • Writers On the Road

    by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted One of the exciting things about becoming a published author is travel. Having a book in print is, of course, super exciting, but being asked to speak, do book signings, or teach is both exciting and fulfilling. It's also tiring. Teaching at conferences was never on…

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  • Writer’s—Chop that Block

    By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Through the years in this writing journey, I’ve read articles on the issue of writer’s block. It’s a thing. It’s not a thing. Well, is it a thing or not? Seems to me since so many folks are writing about it, it’s just gotta be a…

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  • Author Self-care: When You’re Running On Fumes

    By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Anyone else running on fumes? If you read this blog regularly you might recall I’ve been struggling for a while. No need to rehash, but suffice it to say, I emotionally limped into December, tried to be a recluse until a family commitment forced me out…

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