By Penny Reeve Do you know the most important characteristic of a writer?  Yes, that’s correct. They write.  Without writing there is no book, no poem, no blog, no review, no article, no story. Writers need to write, it’s what we do. It’s our craft, our skill, our work and…

by @RamonaRichards For my morning devotions, I use The Upper Room, which I pick up at my local church. However, with the shutdown due to the virus, I didn’t get the July/August issue this month, so I decided to reuse the May/June one. (Yes, I know I can get it…

by Lucinda Secrest McDowell, @LucindaSMcDowel Last fall I submitted the manuscript for my twelfth book. On time. Whew! Because it was on a fast track, and I had already made several travel plans that could not be cancelled, I wondered if I could do it. Through God’s grace, prayer support, diligent…

By James Hannibal @jamesrhannibal You can work a high-tech gadget into a cozy mystery, but that won’t make it a techno-thriller. To be a techno-thriller, a story must have distinct moving parts set up on a collision course that slam together into a perfect mesh. The Vocabulary of Moving Parts…

by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn  I love finding posts I wrote several years ago and seeing where I was in my writing journey and what I was learning. I wish I could tell you that I read them and think, “Wow, I’ve matured so much that this no longer applies to me,”…

By A.E. Pope @AEPopeWriter If you are being completely honest with yourself, you have probably experienced a moment where the success of another writer has caused you to feel this way. At least, I know I have. I would see the success of someone else and be eaten up inside…