by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 We all want a happy ending. But no life reaches a happy ending without some conflict. That’s why we need novels and nonfiction books. We want to see someone overcome the odds and win the victory, find their true love, or solve the crime. We want…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Always read the reviews. Unless you really want that thing. Do you ever find that special treasure online—the one you’ve been searching for so much longer than you want to admit? And you know, you know, you should read the customer reviews. But you’re also afraid those…

by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel You stare at a blank page. Your scribbles are notes that you can’t sort out. You have journals you aren’t sure where to find what you started writing for a book someday. Does your organization of thoughts cause you to feel overwhelmed? I think one of…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Writing conferences are in full swing already this year and the last few weeks we saw at least two conferences spoken about throughout social media. With classes of all the writerly kind, encouraging keynotes, the agent/publisher/editor appointments to give us homework, we need to remember to…

by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn Writer, get out of your chair! Wait? What? That’s not right, is it? This is a site for writers. Writers write. BICHOK, right? (That’s Butt in Chair Hands on Keyboard). Let me tell you a little story. We’ll pretend it’s hypothetical but between you and me it…

By Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales Do you remember when God called you to write? I do. We’d recently moved the second time in a series of six moves. My husband’s construction career had us traveling between national projects. We’d arrived in Aiken, South Carolina. My grandfather had just passed. Between the…