By Julie Lavender @JLavenderWrites Looking for a writing idea for this month? Do you have a blog post or newsletter article due soon? March opens a number of doors for interesting and creative thoughts to engage your audience. Here’s a few suggestions to stir and awaken the artistic muses for…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 It often comes in our weakest moments as writers—the thought that says, I can’t do this. I’ve thought it. Have you? Writing books. Editing books. Finishing blog posts on time. Thinking up ideas to write about. Building a platform. Marketing. With all of the to-do lists…

By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Happy 2026 everyone, Debb here. Everywhere I look, people are disagreeing about something. In the arts, be they culinary, visual, musical, performance based or writing, we have guidelines that are sort of universal, (show don’t tell, don’t serve raw poultry etc.), but there’s also a lot…

by Edwina Perkins @EdwinaPerkins The Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference is at the end of May, and I know what you're thinking. I've got time. Let me stop you right there. The writers who walk away from conference week transformed, are the ones who started preparing months before they…

by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted One. Two. Three, four…five. Yep, Five. And that’s just the ones I’ve written three chapters of. You’ve heard it said to keep a notepad by your bed. This way, when you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for a story, you…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Have you ever found yourself with looming writing deadlines and nary a paragraph completed on a page? Whether those deadlines are self-imposed or set by someone else, they seem to nag and agitate you until you get that piece done. Or worse, you panic and freeze.…