By Karynthia Glasper-Phillips @QT_HisTime In a conversation with some fellow authors and novice writers  I made the statement; “Writers are warriors, answering the call to write is not for wimps.” The expression on their faces varied as each scrambled to remark or question what I meant.  Communicating the gospel in any…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky One of the first things an amateur writer hears is the age-old adage, “Write what you know.” It’s a simple statement, suggested plainly, as if we must take it at face value, but it’s an assertion that goes far beyond what we first take it to…

by Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales Many people love to write and choose to do so as a career. It has its pros and cons, but the joy we get from writing makes it worth those. The question is, which of those pros and cons are scary? [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#writing #writerslife"]8…

My friend Kim (aka The Well Dressed Writer) loves red shoes. She says they're sassy and classy and can elevate an outfit from boring to brilliant. She's right. I like comfortable shoes. Clogs. Crocs. Converse. These go-with-everything clearance finds that slip on easy when I'm headed out the door for…

By Katy Kauffman @katykauffman28 Like a textbook. That’s how my writer’s voice sounded when I started to write my first book. I could write devotions that sounded like a one-sided conversation, but my book sounded academic like the textbooks I had in college—factual, cold, distant. I knew I couldn’t leave…

When I was in junior high, anytime I felt like I needed a good cry, I’d just ask my dad to help me with my math. I’d like to say something about the “sums of the fathers” right here, but any way you pun it, it was actually all me.…