Writing for the Ages
© 2015 Vonda Skelton My writing life began as a first grader the day a fully fleshed-out poem magically appeared in bold, drunken letters on my lined school paper. The accompanying illustration completed the masterpiece.…
© 2015 Vonda Skelton My writing life began as a first grader the day a fully fleshed-out poem magically appeared in bold, drunken letters on my lined school paper. The accompanying illustration completed the masterpiece.…
© 2015 Kat Crawford This weekend I grabbed my coffee and studied mission statements. I wanted to share a concise reason for my giving “Capsules of Hope" Caregiver Seminars. Writing…
© 2014 Gary Fearon The action-packed opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark shows Indiana Jones performing a number of death-defying feats while he acquires a historic artifact. Circumventing…
© 2014 Bob Haslam It’s nice to see our names in print, but that should be a matter of secondary importance, not our major reason for writing. Let’s explore some…
© 2014 Kathryn Page Camp As writers, we yearn for that first book contract to start us on the road to publication. Some of us are so desperate that we’ll…
© 2014 Ann H. Gabhart You’ve all heard the advice to write what you know—but wait a minute. What about fiction? Isn’t that all made up stuff? Not something that…
© 2014 Susan Titus Osborn There are many hurting people who need encouragement and empathy. We can help them by revealing our shortcomings, our mistakes, and our failures. Sometimes it…
© 2014 Kimberly Rae “Your book changed my life.” Have you ever been able to say that about a book? I remember years ago, when I lived in Bangladesh, a…
© 2014 Liz Curtis Higgs When my first historical novel, Thorn in My Heart, was released in 2003, I was known for children’s books (1997: The Pine Tree Parable), funny books (1998:Help!…
© 2014 Andrea Merrell Marketing … promotion … social media—what’s a writer to do? When I first started writing, I didn’t consider the complexities of getting published or establishing a…