What Should a Normal Day Look Like for My Character?
What Should A Normal Day Look Like For My Character? Hiya! This is the start to a brand new blog series, inspired by one of my sisters who is the official questioner behind all of these Budding Writer Questions. Here’s the deal: she asks the questions and I do my […]
Picturing Your People – Guest Blog by One Whimsical Writer
Picturing Your People Welcome One Whimsical Writer back to the blog to continue her mini series! Once again, you may want your notebook and pen handy. In case you missed the first one, here it is: Picturing Your World. With the beginnings of your land forming in your mind, […]
Update on Betrayed (Book Three in The Pure Line Series)
Update on Betrayed Update on Book Three; this is what the process has looked like so far! I began reading my rough draft manuscript of Betrayed, book three in The Pure Line Series, shortly after Trapped was published in September of 2021. This story didn’t have as much of a […]
What Does it Really Mean to Glorify God in Our Writings?
What Does it Really Mean to Glorify God in Our Writings? “I don’t have to put God overtly into the text of my story in order to glorify God in writing a story.” Have you heard a Christian who writes say this? I’ve been saddened to hear this opinion many […]
These Determined Steps: Trapped
These Determined Steps: Trapped Self-Publishing Series, #6 It was April, 2021. We had accomplished a complex feat as a family: Chained was published. Now it was time to pull my chair to the desk, put my hands to the keyboard, and edit the sequel. Another battle began. Trapped had a […]
Kingdom Tales Trilogy
Share this Review Facebook Kingdom Tales TrilogyDavid and Karen Mains Genre: Family Read-Aloud, Christian Fantasy, Children’s Fantasy Scarboy stands, clasping his young brother’s hand, and watches his mother’s funeral pyre blaze at Burning Place. The Enchanter is coming. Now is the time to follow his mother’s last wish…and run! Scarboy […]
Suspense
Suspense In The Lamplighter, by Maria S. Cummins, there is a scene in which your heroine must leap for her life, not knowing if she will make it to safety. The title of the next chapter? Suspense. My siblings have put up with a lot of cliffhangers in my writing. […]
Becoming a Successful Writer – Guest Blog by T.R.Q.T.
Becoming a Successful Writer by T.R.Q.T. Who doesn’t want to be successful? Whether in business, school, sports, or anything else, success is a much-sought goal. But sometimes we don’t know how to get there. I want to give you a map that will help you reach your destination. But before […]
Picturing Your World – Guest Blog by One Whimsical Writer
Picturing Your World Special thanks to Alyson Jensen, for seeing my writing as good enough to be featured. Thank you for the opportunity Sister-in-Christ. Dear reader, please note, I am no professional, and I simply wrote out the way that I created my lands. You do not have to follow […]
A Cry from Egypt
Share this Review Facebook A Cry from EgyptHope Auer (Peterson) Genre: Christian Fiction/ Historical Fiction/Teen/Young Adult/Living Book “Tell them,” her friend said, “tell them all that I’m seeing Yahweh at work in Egypt at last.” Jarah was stunned. What did these words of hope mean? The Hebrew slave girl had […]