I’m planning to attend Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in a few weeks. I’m looking forward to being in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, chatting with old friends, meeting new ones, and focusing on my writing journey for several days. Here’s my to-do list. Before the conference: Pray about whether or not you […]
Practically Painless
When dreaming of being an author one day, I never considered more than seeing my name on the cover and having other people read my words (and love them, of course). Everything else would obviously take care of itself because if a publisher liked my work enough to print it, then it would sell, right? […]
A Responsive Reading of Christian Fiction
At the church where I serve, the Sunday morning service includes a profession of faith spoken in response to the teaching we’ve heard from Scripture. This response might be a creed taken from our denomination’s collection of trusted explanations of faith, or it might be a portion of Scripture. We might read the entire portion […]
Praying For Your Writing Journey
Like the other Mantle Rock authors, I write from a Christian world view. That means whether or not the Gospel is explicitly stated in the stories, God is always woven into the plot. Because of the Christian component, I begin a writing project and writing sessions with prayer. Sometimes the prayer is as simple […]
Giving Hope Through Our Words
GIVING HOPE THROUGH OUR WORDS When my husband and I taught Good News Clubs years ago, we told a Christmas story entitled “If I Had Not Come.” A boy dreamed what the world would be like if Jesus had not come. I made it into play script for the church young people to perform at […]
Making the Most of Your Writing Time
No doubt about it. Life is BUSY! If we aren’t careful, we can run ourselves ragged trying to keep up. If you’re like me, you often feel pulled in every direction, trying to balance family activities, work responsibilities, church and community functions, and household duties. And I have to wonder, WHEN CAN I WRITE?! To […]
Before and After
My parents have a picture of my children in their hallway. It always makes me smile to see how young and adorable my kids were back then. Simply seeing the picture floods my mind with memories of their childhood. My kids are adults now, for the most part. The youngest is sixteen. Not even thirty […]
Ask Yourself Why
One of the things that I love most about the fantasy genre is how you can escape into the story as if you were there along with the characters. I’ve always been a reader. Some of my earliest memories are hiding under the covers with a flashlight, so I could stay up all night to […]
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