I’ve been thinking a lot about prayers and writing these past few years. I’ve always loved that ACFW has a prayer room staffed with volunteers during the conference, and I’ve taken advantage of both praying and volunteering. Prayer is also top of mind because CCWF recently published an anthology of prayers for writers, which we…
Deeper Walk, Deeper Words: Writing as a Spiritual Discipline Webinar March 25, 2020 8:00 – 9:00pm Writing is a discipline. But it can also be a spiritual discipline. As Christian writers, we put words on paper, both as an offering to God and for the nourishment of hungry souls. We pray and ask God to use…
I believe writers enjoy their own writing twice. As writers, they enjoy wrestling to give birth to their vision in words. Then as readers, they rediscover their own words with a certain surprise: “Wow! Did I write that?” Words and language and writing have power. Writing preserves our best thoughts and gives them a life…
By Sarah Hamaker, CCWF President Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my ideal reader. Who is she? What does she like to do? What does she read? Where does she live? What is her family life like? What draws her to pick up a book? What does she like to feel after reading a…
It’s All About the Book Prayers for Writers Released January 25, 2020 Don’t Miss the Party CCWF Quarterly Meeting 2/15/2020. 9:00am – 12:00N Centreville Presbyterian Church Centreville, VA Featuring: Our publishing journey—up close and personal Things we learned: tips about self-publishing, formatting and editing hacks Tips for writing book reviews Book Release Celebration…
By Sarah Hamaker, CCWF President Why should writers, aspiring or established, attend a conference for writers? I’ve attended small writers conferences and large ones, local ones and ones across the country, and each time, I’ve left glad I came. Here are my top 5 reasons for why writers should attend a conference for writers. 1….
Award-winning novelist, investigative journalist, editor, and collaborative writer Jeanette Windle grew up in the Amazon’s guerrilla hot zones, has lived in six countries and traveled in more than 30. Those experiences have birthed 16 fiction titles, including bestselling Veiled Freedom (2010 ECPA Christian Book Award/Christy Award finalist) and Freedom’s Stand, (2012 ECPA Christian Book Award/Carol…
By Sarah Hamaker. CCWF president As writers, we work with tension all the time—without tension, our stories would sag and our heroes and heroines would have very boring relationships. But this blog is about the tension we experience between what we want to work on and what we have to work on. For many of…
CJ (Cecilia) Brightely grew up in Georgia and attended Clemson University in South Carolina, where she met her husband. They went to graduate school at Texas A&M, then moved to the DC area for jobs. After a few years in the national security world, they had their daughter in 2011; Cecilia stayed home with their…
Patricia Durgin is the founder of Marketers On a Mission, the FB Live program offering tutorials and interviews by and for Christian writers and speakers. She’s hosted more than 300 60-minute episodes as of May 2019, and she’s still going strong! She dissects complex online marketing tasks, moving learners from “I’ll never be able to…
