Marketing tips, Writing tips Story in a Nutshell Here is nearly every story you see or hear in a nutshell: A CHARACTER who wants something encounters a PROBLEM before they can get it. At the peak of their…
Writing tips Inventing Much has been written about the life of the mind. I find the phrase itself markedly dreamy. The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Integrity: Just Yes or No “Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one.” —Matthew 5:37 Jesus understood that the more we talk, the less clear…
Publishing tips, Writing tips Who’s Guiding You Into Your Future? By Tonya May Avent http://www.destined4thedub.com/ https://destined4thedub.com/2020/09/30/whos-guiding-you-into-your-future/
Writing tips Writing About Writing by Paul Ingram https://www.theworldisabouttoturn.com/blog/writing-about-writing
Writing tips Unpublished but Powerful by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrewhttp://www.elizabethjarrettandrew.com/2018/04/unpublished-but-powerful/
Marketing tips, Writing tips Critical for connecting with customers When Apple began filtering their communication to make it simple and relevant, they actually stopped featuring computers in most of their advertising. Instead, they understood their customers were all living,…
Writing tips EXERCISES FOR A WRITER’S FORMATION Intuitive Work, Analytical Work Make two lists. In one name as many tasks as you can that have to do with the more intuitive, right-brain aspect in your particular mode…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Why Attend a Writers Conference? - by Editor/Author Kat Brzozowski https://www.swoonreads.com/blog/why-attend-writers-conference/ Here are the upcoming Writing for Your Life and Publishing in Color spiritual writers' conferences: https://writingforyourlife.com/conferences/
Writing tips The Power of Words by Frederick Buechner IF LITERATURE IS a metaphor for the writer's experience, a mirror in which that experience is at least partially reflected, it is at the same time a…
Marketing tips 5 Ethical Ways to Increase Your Social Proof We use social proof as a shortcut in our real-world decision making every day. Things seem easier to buy when others validate that it’s a smart option. Social proof is…
Writing tips Top-Shelf Books The writers of these top-shelf books are my teachers, the ones I turn to in order to learn how to write. They are the people whose work has shaped not…
Marketing tips Social media – don’t expect your publisher to do it for you! Not long ago, the norm in the publishing industry was that publishers would find great writers, publish their books, and take care of publicity in order to help the author…
Publishing tips An Interview with Acquiring Editors – Part 1 - by Angela Scheff Editors do a lot more than simply decide to publish a book and then edit the manuscript, so we decided to interview a few of…
Writing tips Reflective Writing by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrewhttp://www.elizabethjarrettandrew.com/2012/07/reflective-writing-2/
Marketing tips Simple, relevant messages The essence of branding is to create simple, relevant messages we can repeat over and over so that we “brand” ourselves into the public consciousness. from “Building a StoryBrand: Clarify…
Writing tips There’s no law against saving everything One practical matter to remember: even as you hack away all the extra material, even as you edit ruthlessly, there’s no law against saving everything. Most of the time I…
Writing tips The Truth of our Stories – by Frederick Buechner IN THE LONG RUN the stories all overlap and mingle like searchlights in the dark. The stories Jesus tells are part of the story Jesus is, and the other way round.…
Writing tips A Place to Belong I met Julie Witmer at Hutchmoot several years ago. She’s from Pennsylvania. She has an English gardener’s certificate, and called one day to ask if she could give…
Writing tips Surrendering to Time Perhaps the kindest—and most helpful—review I ever received came from Mary Rose O’Reilly, author of The Barn at the End of the World: “I can imagine that [Elizabeth] has…
