Sometimes we all have to take a step back and admit we’re not ready or not prepared. When this happens to me, I lean on my tribe. This month I am happy to lend this space to the wise words of my friend and fellow writer, Hope Welborn, as I…

By Carol Ghattas Have you ever been around people who think like you or who have the same goals in life? Birds of a feather flock together, and a few years ago, I joined a flock in North Carolina, by attending the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. It’s not…

by @PatNichols16 Nine years after I retired from a twenty-seven-year corporate career, a young woman who had drifted in and out of our lives for two decades tragically lost her life. As a cathartic exercise I began writing a fictional story loosely based on her life, but with a happy…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Forty years. That’s a very long time to wait. But that’s how long Moses spent in the land of Egypt, learning what it meant to be a leader in preparation for the great mission God had in store for him. A mission Moses had no…

By Sandra Kay Chambers @PrayWaves All writers know about the Bottom Drawer—it’s a writer's cemetery! The place where unfinished books and writing projects go to die. I had a book that was stuck in the bottom drawer of my desk for over 10 years. It was about prayer. I knew…

by Ramona Richards @RamonaRichards I’m about to write something that may be a bit controversial, and you are free to disagree with me. But if I hear the question that every writer gets, usually from other writers, again, I may become violent. “You write? Are you a plotter or a…