Did you know that FaithWriters offers 12 different, interactive, writing courses? These courses, on everything from writing basics to poetry to writing a literary response, can be helpful to anyone. And now, some of them are available – FOR FREE – to all FaithWriters members.
Since our recent author interviews have encouraged study and growth, the folks at FaithWriters have decided to implement this change. As of now, Silver members can get two of these courses, Writing Basics 1 and [...]
Award-winning author DiAnn Mills is a fiction writer who combines an adventuresome spirit with unforgettable characters to create action-packed, suspense-filled novels. DiAnn’s first book was published in 1998. She currently has more than fifty books published.
Her titles have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists and have won placements through the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Carol Awards and Inspirational Reader’s Choice awards. DiAnn won the Christy Award in 2010 and 2011.
DiAnn is a founding board member for American Christian [...]
If you’re a writer (and if you’re reading this, I’m assuming you are), you most likely enjoy playing with words. After all, that IS what writing is about, isn’t it? Choosing and maneuvering and finagling the 26 letters in the English language into words, and those words into sentences, to paragraphs, to chapters, etc. etc.
It’s amazing how many different words can be made with the two dozen and two letters at our disposal. And, of course, putting them in sentences [...]
Where the Past Meets the Present
By Terri Tiffany
I study my favorite authors’ works.
I’m one of those people who underline in the books I own, trying to find a pattern in the style to how the book comes together.
I’ve been doing that this week. And I’ve found something.
Much of what I admire in my writers is their depth of layers and where they take their characters.
Deep into their head.
Memories filled with details that mingle with their thoughts and actions in the [...]
Author Loree Lough has nearly 4,000,000 (yes, that’s FOUR MILLION) copies of her books in circulation. She has had 88 books published, three novels optioned for movies, more books slated for release between now and 2013, 68 short stories, over 2,500 articles in print, and 9,000 letters from fans. How’s that for a resume’!
Needless to say, Loree Lough knows a little something about this writing thing. Join interviewer and FaithWriters member, Lynda Lee Schab, as she chats with Loree [...]
Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. Watchman Nee
We at FaithWriters wish you a reflective Good Friday and a joyous Easter. He is Risen Indeed!
A cry at the cross
By Maria Egilsson
A mother’s cry
Strangled tight
Pierces the darkened sky
As a Son hangs
Upon that
God forsaken cross
Aching heart
Voice lost
From the tears
Of prayers
Which cover the tomb
Of a wounded heart
Like stones
Hardened
With pain and hurt
Where the beams cross
On the splintered wood
The crux of Grace
Will rise
Mary did you know
What [...]
If you’ve been writing for any length of time, you’ve likely heard, more than once, the need to “show” and not “tell” – to get inside your characters and allow your readers to experience what they are experiencing, instead of just telling your audience what the character is going through. If you want your readers to connect with your characters, they need to go feel like they ARE your character.
This point hit me more strongly [...]
We at FaithWriters are immensely privileged and blessed to get some first-hand insight from multi-published, bestselling Christian author Philip Yancey.
Read on to learn about Mr. Yancey’s writing process, his advice for new writers, and more.
JOANNE SHER: Where do you get ideas for your books and articles?
PHILIP YANCEY: Most start with a question that I have, one to which I don’t know the answer. If I knew the answer, of course, I’d be bored within a few weeks. [...]
CHARISMA!
by Linda Yezak
charisma or charism (kəˈrɪzmə, ˈkærɪzəm)
–n
1. a special personal quality or power of an individual making him capable of influencing or inspiring large numbers of people
2. a quality inherent in a thing which inspires great enthusiasm and devotion
Even the World English Dictionary can’t provide a concrete definition of charisma–it’s a “quality” or “power.” It’s that thing that makes someone magnetic, alluring, “star-quality.” Finding an illustration for it was difficult this morning, because “charismatic” seems to be synonymous with “boisterous” in some sites. Doesn’t quite fit what I’m looking for.
I do, however, see it in this young man’s eyes.
The person who can fill a room with his presence doesn’t [...]
New words are entering the English language all the time – have been since the language began.
I don’t know about you, but, until I started getting interested in writing historical fiction, I didn’t think a whole lot about word origins and writing. That sort of thing interested me (my husband got me the “Compact Oxford English Dictionary” for Valentine’s Day 2000, and I was THRILLED!), but I never saw the benefit of knowing that information (0ther than answering trivia questions).
But [...]
