by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Publication is one of the most challenging milestones you can achieve in your life as an author. Getting published means that a business sees enough worth and value in your work to invest in it and in you, and that’s a big deal. Make no mistake…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author One of my college fiction professors once said that good authors need to know a little about a lot of things. As a nineteen-year-old aspiring author, I resonated with the statement. It made perfect sense. Of course you had to know about lots of different things.…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Many moons ago, I was invited to visit a missionary down in the jungles of northern Guatemala. He asked me to write a script that would be translated and performed with puppets for a community of indigenous people. As we began the process of creating the…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author The hardest part of this whole “career author” thing is making the time to get words on the page. Saying it out loud doesn’t make it sound difficult. Surely it’s not that much of a challenge to sit down at a word processor or typewriter and…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Authors are deep thinkers. Have you noticed that? Every storyteller I’ve ever met has lived some experience that has taught them to reflect. Maybe it was trauma as a child or even as an adult. Maybe it was a terrifying event that caused them to evaluate…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Laughter is good medicine, my friends, and we laugh a lot in my family. Granted, usually we’re laughing because otherwise we’d be crying. Life has been a struggle for a long season, but rather than wallowing in much-deserved and certainly justified angst and exhaustion, we choose…