Writing tips Sarah Arthur’s Top Ten Tips for Getting it Done - by Sarah Arthur Q1: What is that one thing you must start/finish/work on? (Or, to put it in graphic terms, if you were to die in an epic car…
Writing tips The Writer in Me by Maya Gaines When I was a young girl my grandmother Anna Delores Freeman would often take time to talk to me about life. My grandma was a very…
Writing tips What Does the Writing Life Require? Hard Work and Patience. Ten years ago, I was a secretary. I sat at a desk all day and smiled, welcomed visitors, and answered questions. The work was not mentally difficult. It was both…
Writing tips Behind the Words Behind the words we’ve chosen for the page and the words we’ve deliberately not written lies a hidden tale of motivation, longing, and mystery—which we must attend in order to…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips For Aspiring Writers: Your One-Stop Conference/Festival Etiquette Guide For Aspiring Writers: Your One-Stop Conference/Festival Etiquette Guide By Sarah Arthur As a published author who has made some of my biggest breaks by meeting editors at writing conferences, I’m…
Writing tips Craft is a Form of Hospitality Craft is a form of hospitality. When readers (real or imagined) show up at your door, how do you invite them in? What makes them comfortable but not too comfortable?…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips “How To Build Your Own Podcast Program” – video training Mike McHargue (better known as Science Mike) is an author, podcaster, and speaker who travels the world helping people understand the science of life’s most profound and mundane experiences. Mike’s…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Creating Social Currency In “Contagious” Dr. Jonah Berger establishes three key strategies to help create social currency that gives people a way to make themselves look good while promoting you and your ideas…
Writing tips Being a Voice Not an Echo – by Rachel Hauck Writing in the Christian fiction market pushes us to go beyond the realm of this life to find meaning and purpose for our characters. Even non…
Writing tips Take Note of Others’ Responses Pay attention to how other people respond to your creative work. A true gift gives true pleasure to others-or it truly stirs them up. When your friend’s face lights up…
Writing tips Be Uncomfortable While writing, we choose again and again to be uncomfortable, going against instinct and social norms and, possibly, good sense. From discomfort rises our best work. If we can hold…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips It’s Not About You If you’ve paid any attention to my posts, you know that I am bullish regarding the need for new authors to participate in social media and build a platform (a…
Publishing tips, Writing tips 10 Tips for Working with an Editor - by Tony Jones A while back I was in Chicago, meeting with my editor about my next book. I’ve known him professionally and as a friend for over a decade,…
Writing tips Small Events by Frederick Buechner Life went on of course because that is what life does. I kept on writing books, which a relatively small but faithful audience kept on reading. It…
Writing tips They Push Me I turn to these writers and their pages again and again. They are my teachers and my mentors. Though not all of them are poets in the rhyme-and-meter sense of…
Writing tips Expect to Become More Attentive to, and Engaged with Life Creative work teaches you to pay attention, and this is something that few people do well or often. We spend hours and days at a time just trying to…
Writing tips This Little Row of Books This little row of books holds the best stuff in the world for me. This writing, as a friend of mine once said about some writing she loved, “touches the…
Writing tips Stay Healthy Through Prayer Prayer and other spiritual disciplines can help creativity simply because they are helping the interior life stay healthy. - from "The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality…
Writing tips Unleash Your Creativity by S. D. Grimm Writing flash fiction is great for writers in general. Here are a few thoughts on why. Publishing Credit Flash Fiction stories are a real…
Writing tips Aborted Creativity Serves No One Writing for writing’s sake is marvelous so long as the writer isn’t in denial about his or her dreams. Most writers, whether we admit it or not, want our creations…
