Author Margaret Zacharias suggests some Lenten season writing and literary enrichment to help ease you through the lion (or lamb) of March.
Rewriting a Story
Rewriting a Story Writing a story is not easy. Sometimes a writer has to change his or her manuscript. Sometimes the plot doesn’t make sense, or the ending doesn’t work. Maybe a character doesn’t fit in the story and has to be removed. Or maybe the writer can’t finish the […]
Catholic Writers Conference Online
Maria Riley shares her experience with the CWCO, an invaluable resource for tips, tricks, and encouragement, all for a very reasonable price.
Spring Time
SPRING TIME (1-min read) By Lisa Livezey “All my fresh springs are in thee.” – Psalm 87:7 (DW-DO)[1] As a devotional writer, I sometimes worry that moments of spiritual inspiration might dry up. Deadlines loom – some professionally set and others personally mandated. What if I run dry of sacred […]
Five (Free!) Ways to Support an Author You Love
After hitting an author millstone, Maria Riley felt inspired to share ways that people can support authors without spending a cent.
Three Things I’ve Learned from my Chickens
Three Things I’ve Learned from my Chickens As writers, we know that one aspect of writing well is writing authentically. By that I mean we have to follow the rules of the reality we are writing about, whatever they may be. The rules governing Middle Earth are a little different […]
Trust in a Dishonest World
Trust in a Dishonest World reveals the best and worst in the human experience. A.K. Frailey considers how artists consider all of life’s messiness with a will to understand and find hope.
Do Whatever He Tells You by Maria Riley
I love meditating on the Wedding at Cana. Attending a wedding seems like such an ordinary event for Jesus and his friends to attend. I imagine them laughing and enjoying themselves, much the way I do when I attend weddings, which helps me remember that Jesus was fully human too. […]
The Road Goes Ever On: My Experience Publishing an Audiobook
A.K. Frailey ponders how the meaning of what she’d written in her first book stood out even more clearly when it was recorded as an audiobook.
The Path Late Taken
The Path Late Taken “Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105 I am one of those people who let life happen to me rather than setting an intentional course for my life. But it is never too late to learn. As […]