Writing tips Viewpoint and tense What do I work with when I’m in this left-brain stage? Well, as a storyteller, I sketch out a plot as best I can. I’ve usually free-written about characters, giving…
Writing tips I was forced to listen I sit on my favorite rock, looking over the brook, to take time away from busyness, time to be. I’ve long since stopped feeling guilty about taking being time; it’s…
Writing tips Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Purpose or Passion? Here’s What Research Says Leads to Higher Performance By Keith Reynold Jennings, {grow} Contributing Columnisthttps://businessesgrow.com/2020/08/19/purpose-or-passion/
Uncategorized Existential Dizziness Some are questioning whether the churches they grew up in have anything to offer them as they make their ways in a culture of many cultures with many views of…
Marketing tips “Hey check this out” There’s another cost that creators tend to miss too: How much does it cost for people to find your work? To read the reviews or read an article about it?…
Writing tips It takes years to write a book To comfort friends discouraged by their writing pace, you could afford them this: It takes years to write a book - between two and ten years. Less is so…
Writing tips Have a Checklist It can be helpful to have a checklist, particularly once you’re in the middle, most engaged stage of work. The middle is often a muddle, and if you have some…
Uncategorized A character who has a passionate desire In Art in the Zen of Writing, Ray Bradbury says that all you really need for a story is a character who has a passionate desire. The character and the…
Writing tips A Christian artist Why is it that I, who have spent my life writing, struggling to be a better artist, and struggling also to be a better Christian, should feel rebellious when I…
Writing tips I miss a lot The fact that we need so much help understanding what we are looking at is a lesson in itself. How often do we assume that we know what we are…
Uncategorized The Hostility Toward Bible Study Teachers by Rick Jordan https://greatbibleteachers.com/the-hostility-toward-bible-study-teachers/
Writing tips Figure Eights I picture the creative process traveling the figure eight curves of an infinity sign. We begin in the world, where a travel adventure or newspaper headline or grave illness or…
Writing tips Good Habits: Whatever Happens And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not…
Publishing tips, Writing tips Freedom Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex that it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as…
Marketing tips BUSINESS HAS AN ENEMY Business has a fierce, insidious enemy that, if not identified and combated, will contort our company into an unrecognizable mess. The enemy I’m talking about is noise. …
Writing tips Practice Good writers practice and study and practice some more. They may not call it practice-they may simply keep writing, day after day-but in fact they are practicing every time they…
Publishing tips What’s the Difference Between Marketing and Publicity? - by Jana Burson Curious about the difference between marketing and publicity? One of the earliest explanations I remember hearing, maybe even as far back as college, was this: Marketing…
Writing tips Charm Them – by Mary Karr However you charm people in the world, you should do so on the page. A lot of great writers rebuke charm, and I don’t mean the word to conjure a…
Marketing tips When Preparation meets Relationships meets Opportunity I remember one client, Jerry DeWitt, who had been a Pentecostal minister for twenty-eight years. After reading the work of and meeting Richard Dawkins he eventually became an atheist and,…
