Publishing tips, Writing tips Path to Publishing: Writing Even When No One is Reading by Kathy Izard https://www.womenfaithstory.com/blog/kathyizard-23r3m-t98fk
Marketing tips, Writing tips Why Writers Should Blog by Angela Enos Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts, connect with readers, practice your writing skills, and build a writing platform. As emerging authors, we have all been…
Writing tips Can it be done? and, Can I do it? Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it? Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon…
Marketing tips Smart companies embrace the conflicts that make communities thrive. Most companies prefer to avoid conflict. But communities are inherently political, and conflict is the norm. “In” groups need “out” groups against which to define themselves. PlayStation gamers dismiss Xbox.…
Marketing tips Define something simple and relevant At the highest level, the most important challenge for business leaders is to define something simple and relevant their customers want and to become known for delivering on that promise.…
Writing tips There are stories in my soul, and they are the ones that count the most. Each time I rewrote an essay, my story came forward a little more, my history opened a bit wider, and I became more visible. This was not comforting. However, I…
Uncategorized Protected: Responding to Criticism I apologized to you and got no responseI asked to speak with you and got no responseI increased the number of speakers with disabilities at my conferences, and you did…
Writing tips The stranger However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture’s wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self. You…
Writing tips How to Write a Book by Angela Enos For me, the easiest part of being a writer is the actual writing of the book. After finishing the manuscript, I believe the real work begins. Years…
Marketing tips Five constant human truths Here are the five constant human truths, we’ll explore together in the next section of the book. People want to: Feel loved: Loyalty isn’t dead yet. It’s just not coming…
Marketing tips Pare down the customer’s ambition to a single focus A critical mistake many organizations make in defining something their customers want is they don’t pare down that desire to a single focus. I’ve had countless conversations with frustrated business…
Writing tips What readers really want is the story I’ve been writing a book of memoir-essays for at least three years. The first set seemed pretty good, but the feedback I got from writer friends was lukewarm, so I…
Writing tips The minute I believe I know the mind of God… I can respect almost anyone who admits to being human while reading a divine text. After that, we can talk—about why we highlight some teachings and ignore others, about how…
Marketing tips Five Steps Every Aspiring Author Must Take Before Finishing Your Book by Kathy Izard https://www.womenfaithstory.com/blog/kathyizard-23r3m
Writing tips Obedience Perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about “Christian art" is that to paint a picture or to write a story or to compose a song…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips A world with diminished loyalty There are three essential strategies for adjusting to a world with diminished loyalty: Take exceptional care of the 13 percent of your customers who are true loyalists. Give them the…
Marketing tips Something your customer wants When we identify something our customer wants and communicate it simply, the story we are inviting them into is given definition and direction. Here are some more examples: Financial Advisor:…
Writing tips Creativity: Begin with What’s There When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” . . . Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they…
Writing tips However many other religious languages I learn, I dream in Christian. One of my favorite authors, Paul Knitter, has written a book called “Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian”. In it, he describes the “double-belonging” that led him to…
Writing tips King Lear - by Frederick Buechner There would be a strong argument for saying that much of the most powerful preaching of our time is the preaching of the poets, playwrights, novelists…
