The Writer’s Need for Tenacity

by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills

The road to publication is paved with challenges and blessings. The path is seldom straight. It’s often twisted, filled with ruts, briars, bruises, and sometimes it leads us dangling over a cliff. But at the completion, we are strong and successful writers because a successful writer is tenacious.

Give Your Writing a Summer Reboot

by Lucinda Secrest McDowell @LucindaSMcDowel

I don’t know about you, but I did not write a great masterpiece during the first 90 days of pandemic quarantine.

Dipping the Quill Deeper: Carrying Out the Obligation

by Eva Marie Everson @EvaMarieEverson

While I was beseeching our Lord to-day that he would speak through me, since I could find nothing to say and had no idea how to begin to carry out the obligation laid upon me by obedience. ~St. Teresa of Avila

She was a noblewoman who lived in the 16^thcentury. She chose the reclusive life of a Carmelite nun over a life of privilege and ease. She was a mystic. An author. A religious reformer. A theologian. A woman after God’s own heart. A rare beauty. And she penned lines such as those above that can take my breath away.