Tag: Writing

  • Faith in Children’s Literature: Method 2

    This week, we’re delving into method 2 of incorporating faith in kids lit: writing Biblical values into children’s literature.

  • Faith in Children’s Literature: Method 1

    How can we write faith back into children’s literature and our schools? In method 1, we’re delving into the world of allegory.

  • Review: The New England Romance Collection

    This collection of Christian Fiction romance stories was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Here are 2 ways we can vastly improve the genre.

  • Review: At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

    I wanted to start this Friday’s review of Christian Fiction with first book in Jan Karon’s Mitford series, At Home in Mitford. What makes the book so great?

  • Are Christian Fiction Books Worth Writing?

    I spent my college career debating if Christian Fiction books are worth writing. This is the first post in a series debating the pros and cons of the genre.

  • Writing for Granna

    We spent Thanksgiving lunch at my grandparents’ house for the first time I could remember since I was a child. For whatever reason, the holidays got celebrated in the days before or after the day marked on the calendar, or my grandparents would stop at our house on the way to see other family, or…

  • Why I Write

    It was our third science teacher of the year. We sat in the corner room with the door-size window that let in what hint of light a Tennessee-gray sky provided in March. This teacher had grouped our desks into five sections around the room, as opposed to the rows our last teacher had instituted. She…

  • Speak Truth

    We seek to be people who speak truth within our communities, within the media, and within our own hearts.

  • Why Share?

    It has been about a year since I really wrote anything. I quit calling myself a writer about a month ago. Too many rejections, too little content to display, too many months between now and the prolific college years when my days revolved around writing assignments and editing work. Now, days look like struggling to…

  • Hummingbird Redemption, part 2

    Find part 1 here. * As the bird continued to flit around the silent garage door motor, my mom and I watched him grow weaker. His wings stopped closing tight against his body. His little body heaved. His body leaned sideways off his perch. I sat on the carpeted garage steps and looked up “how to…