By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Oh, the curse of redundancy. It slashes through our writing with woes from our readers. The practice can cost a writer publication or lose readers. Expendable words and phrases don’t have to destroy our writing projects. A writer can master techniques to avoid them. Remember the…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28  The written word doesn’t only stay written. Nor is it completely silent. Even if we don’t read out loud, our minds “hear” the words on a page. As we read silently, our brains pronounce the words. (Like right now, yes?) Sentences don’t stay stagnant on a…

by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel Recently our family was going through some old photos of when our children were young. We were looking at what they said they wanted to do when they grew up. This was before they made a declaration of faith in Christ and were considering how to…

By Julie Lavender @JLavenderWrites My latest project with the Penguin Random House imprint I’ve worked with previously released in mid-August. My hubby and I are thrilled about this assignment that we worked on together because it was something we’d never done before – a word search puzzle book. I adored…

By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Whether you’ve recently returned from a conference or are excitedly planning your next trip, how you respond post-event is vital to building strong connections and maximizing the networking you did while in attendance. Invitations to submit These are the golden tickets, and why a lot of…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam As writers who are Believers in Christ, we should be praying for our writing. That sounds very simplistic, but am I the only one that often forgets to cover my writing in prayer before I get into a writing jam? Far too many times than I’d…