by Sarah Tun Imagine walking in pristine wilderness, sitting lakeside, or basking in the fresh air, with the warm sunshine on your face. Imagine solitary space and time, just to write. These are just some of the possible advantages of taking a writer’s retreat. You can be somewhere you love, alone, to write. Internet silence,
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Category: Encouragement
An Issue of Time Bearing Fruit
by Tom Blubaugh Time is an intriguing phenomenon. Humans measure time in seconds (nano, micro, milli), minutes, hours, days, weeks, fortnights, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia. Humans have recorded events of time past–history. The future’s an unknown, except for what the Bible says in the Book of Revelation and some answers to questions by
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The Waiting Game
by Jann W. Martin Are you playing the waiting game? I am. It can be really frustrating. In November, 2018 I sent my proposal to my assistant agent. It’s for my Bible Characters Through the Ages series. Daniel and Sarah, brother and sister, build a time travel machine and go back to meet the Bible
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Genesis of a Novel
by Ian Wall Some twenty years ago (I don’t remember exactly when) The Lord asked me to write a novel for him. I said, “Yes Lord, but you are going to have to show me what to do”. I had not written a novel before and I did not have a clue what to do.
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The W.R.I.T.E Prayer
by Cherrilynn Bisbano The W.R.I.T.E. Prayer By Cherrilynn Bisbano Writers write and called writers pray, then write. Has God called you to write for His kingdom? You must pray, my friend. To be empowered and focused we must storm the gates of heaven before we write. We must lay our expectations, dreams, and difficulties at
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The Cost of Breakthrough
by Sarah Tun Authors need fellowship. Teachers speak the same language, scientists and artists do too. And so do writers. Perhaps it’s because our work is generally solitary that we often don’t recognise our need to “socialize” or it may be that we are so used to managing on our own that we have learned
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Praise is a key to our breakthrough
by Sarah Tun As Christian writers, let us write as giving praises to GOD. In anything we do, let it be an act of worship. In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Paul writes, Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. There it is!
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In Defense of Libraries: Why Einstein and the Rabbit Were Right
by Margaret Welwood The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. –Albert Einstein I cheerfully presented Marie and Mr. Bee to our Acting Children’s Librarian. But rather than snatch it with eager hands, he said, “I’ll check in our computer and see how well your other book is
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Writers Chat Interviewed Authors Community Partners
Partners’ Report The partners of Authors Community had a great time chatting with authors (both seasoned and newbies) on Writers Chat this week. Check out this video to find out more… Every Tuesday morning at 10am Central time you can go to the Live Facebook Writers Chat for some great fellowship and to learn some
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The Forgiving Eye
by Steve Muir Sounds benevolent, doesn’t it? After all, forgiveness is a great virtue, right? In this case, unfortunately, wrong. The Forgiving Eye is the name I’ve given to a particular phenomenon that afflicts me – and I’m sure, most authors – when it comes to reviewing their own writing. Content is not the problem
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