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My Office Space

August 17, 2022 By D'Ann Mateer

Back at the beginning of 2022—yes, eight months ago!—I realized no one had slept in the dedicated nursery room upstairs for the entire year we'd lived in the house. What would be better, I surmised, was a playroom for when the kids came over. And it made more sense for the playroom to multipurpose with the large extra guest/exercise room and to move my office to space just for me. The upstairs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: bookshelves, desk, office, writing space

Plotter or Pantser

August 5, 2022 By Jody Hedlund

Plotter or Pantser. Those are the two terms authors often use to describe their method of writing. The plotter (as you might guess!) takes the time to detail out the finer points of the story before beginning to write. The pantser, on the other hand, doesn’t spend a whole lot of time (if any) on thinking through the story before starting it. She flies by the seat of her pants (hence, where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reading, Writing Tagged With: Bride Ship Series, Jody Hedlund, Sunrise Publishing

Summertime Writing–the Chaos and the Glory

July 27, 2022 By Dani Pettrey

Hi, friends! Happy Wednesday. I’m super excited to have my friend and fellow Bethany House suspense author, Jaime Jo Wright, guest blogging today. Enjoy her lovely post. A writer told me once they couldn’t wait until summer when they had more time to write. But if you’re like me, summer ushers in a massive amount of chaos. Frankly, I’m not a fan of writing during the summer. I have two kids … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing

Want to Write? Love to Read? Come to ACFW + Giveaway

July 14, 2022 By Cara Putman

This is the middle of an insanely busy couple of weeks in my day job, so this will be a shorter post. Be sure to stick to the end for information on a giveaway I'm coordinating. I know you're an avid reader, or you wouldn't be here. But are you interested in writing? I'll be teaching three workshops at ACFW in September with my writing buddy Pepper Basham. Last week we hopped on a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: ACFW Conference, cara putman

Book Birthday Giveaway

July 13, 2022 By Dani Pettrey

Hi friends, Happy Wednesday! Today I’m celebrating the release of my 14th book, The Deadly Shallows! I’m also celebrating 10 years of publishing. My debut novel, Submerged, came out in May of 2012. I’m so grateful and awed by God at all He’s done. We serve a good and gracious God. I still can’t wrap my head I thought it might be fun to share some behind-the-scenes factoids about a handful of my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Writing Tagged With: Dani Pettrey, release day, the deadly shallows

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