The Writer's Pen

Kintsugi Last year, I attended a thought-provoking conference for writers that challenged my thinking. As a Christian author, I wo...

Wait? I thought it Was All Downhill From Here? Ever take on a project that just might be more than you had planned? At first, you co...

How Writing is So Similar to Trail Running... "Writing is like a marathon, not a sprint!" We writers have heard this before. Writi...

This was the question a fellow author and I answered the other day when we met to discuss trends in publishing.  Our answer was most...

To Battle! Heroes and Goals Developing the goals of your protagonist is essential to telling his story. What goal awaits him at the en...

Will I Ever Laugh Again? Back in the 1990s, I read a book by Barbara Johnson that I never forgot. Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be H...

Where is God? In my last post, I wrote about that foggy brain feeling caused by grief. I wrote about how strange everything became aft...