by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Buffet strategies. I have them. Mostly they fail, but I have them. Stratagem one: load up the plate on the first go-round so I don’t have to go back. But guess what. I always have to go back. It’s a buffet. The beauty of the buffet is…

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…

Do you ever wish you could sneak away to the mountains, sip coffee (or tea!) with fellow writers, and talk about the characters who live rent-free in your head—without anyone looking at you like you’re crazy? That’s exactly why the Mountainside Novelist Retreat was created! [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#Writing #Writinglife…