Encouragement

Two Questions That Change Everything

When you’re living with the Holy Spirit, there are many moments when things aren’t going the way you thought they would be. That’s hard. I know. Because when you put everything in His hands, things are supposed to work out the way you wanted them to, right? I understand. Really I do. What I challenge…

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If You Give A Writer A Laptop

Reposted in honor of the FIRST Carnival of Christian Writers Don’t forget to check out the rest of the carnival! You’re in for a wild ride! by Gina Conroy based on “If you Give a Mouse a Cookie” by Laura Numeroff If you give a writer a laptop she’ll want a cup of coffee before…

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Giving Your Writing Journey to God

LIKE MANY OF YOU, I have been working toward being a novelist my whole life. It’s taken years of hard work and God to get to this place and it’s only been in the last few years that God has moved the waiting pieces together. When I was younger, I thought I wanted to write…

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Introducing: Margaret Daley

Let’s give a big welcome to my friend, Margaret Daley, a multi-published writer of inspirational romance and inspirational romantic suspense. She writes for Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense. Besides being a writer, she is a high school teacher of students with disabilities and grandmother to two adorable girls. Please welcome her to the group…

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Guest Blogger: Michelle Gregory

For twenty years, I was a fiction writer who avoided writing: I’d read at least a dozen books about writing, I wrote in a journal, I shared family stories in my scrapbooks, and I blogged. But deep down inside of me, I knew I was a writer, and I almost never gave that side of…

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Crossing My Fingers

 finally got my laptop back and it’s been great using my hubby’s old one at home, but mine had certain things to help me get where I needed fast…like having my bloglines and my.delio.us in the tool bar section! (Confession: I haven’t checked my bloglines in almost two weeks!) Now I have to reconfigure all…

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Pen Names

I’ve been toying with the idea of a pen name for years and want your input. I’ve noticed that most published writers in the CBA use their real names and seem to give out sensitive information about their kids and where they live right on the book jacket. I’m just curious as to why? Maybe…

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Introducing: Camy Tang

Camy Tang is a loud Asian chick who writes loud Asian chick-lit. Next year in September, Zondervan will release her first novel about the Sakai cousins, Japanese American Christian women who fight the stigma of the infamous family title, “Oldest Single Female Cousin” and the machinations of their diabolical, match-making Grandma. In a previous life…

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In Case You Haven’t Met Tricia Yet!

Tricia Goyer is the author of five novels, two non-fiction books, and onechildren’s book. Tricia was named Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference”Writer of the Year” in 2003. In 2005, her book Life Interrupted was afinalist for the Gold Medallion. Also in 2005, her novel Night Song wonACFW’s Book of the Year for Long Historical Romance.…

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Are You Humble or Humbled?

“A man’s pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.” Proverb 29:23 Humble is not a word I’d use to describe myself. Confident, insecure, teachable, stubborn, though contradictary at times, they better describe the real me. I admire the humble in spirit. Many great men of the Bible were humble…

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