Protecting Your Writing In this day and age, it is very easy for a hacker to break into your Amazon, Lulu, or another print-on-demand self-publishing account. When this happens, it is very difficult for a writer to control their emotions. The writer panics and worries about their stolen manuscripts. How […]
Serendipity
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.