Writing tips Scared and Sacred from “Adorning the Dark” by Andrew Peterson Being a writer doesn’t just mean writing. It means finishing. I’ve heard it said that a song is never finished, only…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips The Fluidity of Decentralization Our society is moving away from the rigid order of hierarchy toward the fluidity of decentralization. It is moving from nouns to verbs, from tangible products to intangible becomings. From…
Writing tips In Praise of Revision Every writer I know who’s worth a damn spends way more time “losing” than “winning” – if success means typing a polished page that lands in print as is. Scriveners…
Writing tips Time and Freedom Our age is so obsessed with the future and so impatient with the past that we need to remind ourselves of the liberating role of memory. If you think about…
Writing tips Uncertainty Is Our Friend We humans dislike being undone. However much we enjoy writing, we find the disorderly process unsettling. We yearn for arrival or permission to quit. The state of incompletion is…
Writing tips Nowhere Near As Easy As It Looks Sometimes the people who ask the question go on to say they are not sure they can be creative on paper every day. I tell them with all seriousness I…
Writing tips Designer Jeans or Bermuda Shorts? - by Leona Choy Here's the long and the short of it. Let's personify an IDEA as if it were a person. When writers get a heads-up that an…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers http://theconversation.com/academics-can-change-the-world-if-they-stop-talking-only-to-their-peers-55713
Writing tips “Beret Man” When I begin to write a book, writing my daily word count with my fountain pen in my hand, following…
Publishing tips, Writing tips Wildly Controversial Erring on the side of audaciousness – trying to grab the customer by the throat – is partly why a lot of the projects we are talking about were wildly…
Writing tips Revising Ourselves Change, on the page as in life, does not happen when we’re stubborn and clingy. Revision asks that we cast the small world we’ve created in words—and all it…
Writing tips In the Beginning from “Adorning the Dark” by Andrew Peterson You mumble a phrase. It’s gibberish, but it suggests a melody. You’ve gotten melodies in your head before, but this one feels…
Writing tips Learning the Wrong Lesson from Feedback by John Backman Never would I expect an offer of unsolicited feedback on a contest submission, but that’s what I found in my emailbox one morning. Apparently the reviewers…
Writing tips Let us seize the day Those with the greatest view of time are those best able to use and enjoy the time they have. Life is short, but we are called to rise to our…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Five Things I’ve Learned as a Bi-vocational Writer by Kate Rademacher https://www.katerademacher.com/edge-of-faith-blog/2019/12/31/bi-vocational-writer
Writing tips Living By Lists I list a lot. And I’m not alone. In the course of many kitchen-table conversations, I’ve discovered that we keep lists for a variety of reasons. People make lists to…
Writing tips A Good Question What makes a perfect question? Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question…
Writing tips A Whole New Devil By the time a writer considers rewriting, the work of composing is familiar: a blank page, a tentative start, the splash of gladness when words arrive, the adrenaline rush of…
Writing tips Books Like These – by Frederick Buechner The following meditation is from a talk on the occasion of the presentation of the Whiting Writers' awards: THE WRITERS WHO get my personal award are the ones who show…
Writing tips Read Your Work Aloud I recommend you find places to read your work aloud. A chance to teach, lecture, lead a retreat, speak…
