Since most people are looking for God’s audible voice, they question whether he ever speaks to them. When they hear someone say, “God told me . . .” they feel inferior, wishing...

Avoid looking like an amateur. You’ll see these mistakes in print, but you can do better. Please, never use multiple exclamation points!!!! Avoid single exclamation points except for one- or...

Readers want a picture of Jesus’ world 2,000 years ago, but not in the language of his day. How would you describe Mary’s worship of the Father? Sholem Asch wrote...

In the classics, long paragraphs were desirable. At one time, English teachers said a topic sentence should begin a paragraph, followed by several more, as if we hadn’t really achieved...

We aren’t in high school English class where we couldn’t think what to write but just added words to make the required count. And we’re not living in the nineteenth...

You can brighten your descriptions by giving details recognized by the senses other than the most-common “sight.” One of the best ways to practice that is to describe the world...

Our words should grab attention quickly and make readers part of the action. We need to think in cinematic terms. Movie watchers will change channels if they aren’t immediately pulled...

A memoir tells what happened, which easily loses focus on the emotion of the moment. Eleven-year-old Tom Sullivan took a flying leap off Suicide Rock to the water sixty feet...

These paragraphs paint a beautiful picture of a blind girl’s confidence that everything will be all right, when readers already have seen enough of the threat of war to know...

Ideas come from experiences. For writing inspiration, we need only pay better attention to our surroundings and find the extraordinary among what others would judge as ordinary. The more we...