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Spiritual Life
Let My Words Be Few
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow […]
Critique Groups
Critique Group Etiquette
March 25, 2011
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Successful critique groups use proper etiquette. All of our Inspire Critique Groups use the following guidelines in our meeting: When you submit a manuscript for […]
Writing for Children
Writing with God: Big Ideas about God in Little Books
It’s Ridiculous. Sometimes, when I stop to think about writing for children, it seems ridiculous. How can anyone expect to take God’s huge truths and […]
Spiritual Life
Prayers of the Heart
September 11, 2014
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Last week, a young Christian man told me, “I would give just about anything so my wife wouldn’t have to work.” They have two very […]
Writing Tips
My Toaster Hates Me: Four Ways to Unstick Your Writing
I’m convinced my toaster hates me. I place soft, fluffy bread into its yawning mouth, and I get a blackened lump of coal in return. […]
Fiction
Real Writers Don’t Write Romances . . . Or Do They?
At Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference a couple of years ago, I attended a workshop taught by an acquisitions editor for Harlequin’s Love Inspired line. After […]
Craft of Writing
Voice, Houses, and Other Fun Stuff
November 17, 2016
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Saturday, November 12, Inspire Christian Writers held its quarterly workshop. After a fun mixer, we had two breakout sessions. I attended the Advanced Writer Workshop […]
Blogging
To Blog or Not to Blog?
As Christian writers, we fare well if we possess the wisdom to ask God for the strength and discipline needed to buckle down and type […]
Writer's Journey
Writers Need Writers: In the Footsteps of the Inklings
Tolkien, Lewis, Barfield, Williams … what did they have that I don’t? I’ve been reading the book, Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer.1 I’m a bit jealous […]
