by Sue | Jan 20, 2026 | Books & Writers
Doesn’t that photo of an old Tennessee schoolhouse tickle your imagination? What was life there like in the 19th century? What did it feel like to walk in thirty-degree weather with a lighter jacket than today, or shoes with the soles barely intact? Or how stifling...
by Sue | Sep 22, 2025 | Books & Writers
My husband once said if I wrote a murder mystery it would be: They discovered the body in the library. The butler did it. The end. Well, I’m not that bad, but I learned the value of succinct writing when I wrote articles with a 750-to-1000-word count for The Good News...
by Sue | Mar 4, 2024 | Books & Writers
A while ago, I wrote about creating characters people can relate to. Good guys aren’t all good, and bad guys aren’t all bad. I don’t know about other writers, but those who know me well will recognize that my protagonist, Lou Skalney, loves coffee as much as I do....
by Sue | Feb 12, 2024 | Books & Writers
I If the blank page had teeth, it would bite me. Fortunately, I met a terrific group of writers here in Tennessee, and one gentleman captured writers’ block so well in his poem, A Writer’s Nightmare!, I asked if I could share his opus with you. R.L. McCullough...
by Sue | Feb 6, 2024 | Books & Writers
I’m a member of an online Christian writers community called “Faith Writers.” https://www.faithwriters.com/ and I wrote this for one of its weekly writing challenges a while ago. I just discovered it again dozing in my document file and decided to share it with you....
by Sue | Nov 27, 2023 | Books & Writers
Writing has some unique challenges for the aspiring scribe. Not getting sued first comes to mind, but there are others. Somehow, we must spin a yarn in such a way that you, the reader, buy into our story. It must have verisimilitude, or at least the sense of...
