It’s that time of year for Standardized Tests...Administered to students year after year, checking progress, numerically assigning how well or poorly a student is progressing. I’m so glad God doesn’t require them. Can you imagine? Below is a passage from the Gospel of Matthew. Choose the response...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self Editing
Writing Fiction 101 says that nothing goes into the story without a reason, including description.Many new authors get lost in the details. The story stops for what I like to call tiptoeing through the tulips. If a reader gets bogged down in heavy desciption, she will skip right out of the garden.Careful...
Make-A-Story™ Monday - This Week's Writing Prompt
Writing to spec – you’ve heard the term. It means writing what the publisher wants. Can you do it? In our new feature - Make-A-Story™, we ask you to create a story with these elements. The story can be set in any time frame, any length, must adhere to our guidelines and have our standard Christian world...
Thursdays Tips: Harvesting Your Hard Times
Authentic emotions. These are some of the toughest elements to include in a manuscript. Why? Because writers, like most of society, do not like to be transparent. (I can relate to this too, since I write...
Write the Vision ~ Wednesday
For a few weeks my computer has been freezing. Late last Thursday I found out why. A young man showed me the video card. The fan was askew. It had melted. But...he had good news-"No damage done and there's another video card in there anyway."It occurred to me this was yet another example of Matthew...
Tactical Tuesday: Advice for Self Editing
Often the question is asked, "What books on writing would you recommend?" I tend to think books on writing are similar to exercise equipment. You can spend a lot of money buying the product, but you'll never get anything out of it unless you use the thing. A writer can buy all the books in the world...
Make-A-Story™ Monday - This Week's Writing Prompt
Writing to spec – you’ve heard the term. It means writing what the publisher wants. Can you do it? In our new feature - Make-A-Story™, we ask you to create a story with these elements. The story can be set in any time frame, any length, must adhere to our guidelines and have our standard Christian world...
Write the Vision ~ Wednesday
But now we see not yet all things put under Him. But we see Jesus— Heb 2: 8,9 Years ago I heard a message entitled, “But We See Jesus.” It was taken from this passage in Hebrews. Often over the years I’ve reflected on that message, that servant of God sent to point out that truth, that while things...
Make-A-Story™ Monday - This Week's Writing Prompt
Writing to spec – you’ve heard the term. It means writing what the publisher wants. Can you do it? In our new feature - Make-A-Story™, we ask you to create a story with these elements. The story can be set in any time frame, any length, must adhere to our guidelines and have our standard Christian world...
