Beat the Block and Write, Write, Write! By Marisa Masterson Stuck! Stuck! I know what it is like to be beaten—or nearly so—by writer’s block. Looking at the blank page of a notebook or the white rectangle on the computer…
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Understanding Your Audience: Successful Book Marketing Begins Before You Write
Understanding Your Audience: Successful Book Marketing Begins Before You Write Writing a book requires discipline and creativity. Successful writers must start their marketing strategy before writing the book, which means it takes much more than simply writing. Knowing your audience…
Seven Ways to Preach Without Being “Preachy” and Teach Without Being “Teachy”
Seven Ways to Preach Without Being “Preachy” and Teach Without Being “Teachy” Can Christian fiction books teach important truths and historical facts without sounding like school lessons? Can Christian fiction for children incorporate Scripture without putting the reader in “church”? …
Decorate Your Empty Nest with that Novel You’ve Always Wanted to Self-Publish
Decorate Your Empty Nest with that Novel You’ve Always Wanted to Self-Publish Do you have a manuscript collecting dust? Self-publish that manuscript and watch your novel come to life. The last five years of refining a novel, facing rejection, and…
Three Ways to Add Drama to Creative Writing
Three Ways to Add Drama to Creative Writing Attending The Well, a conference for Christian Creatives, got me thinking about three ways to add drama to creative writing. It’s good to write what God lays on your heart; it’s better…
How to Build an Effective Writing Routine
How to Build an Effective Writing Routine Everybody thinks writing is easy until they try to do it. From a theoretical standpoint, it sounds easy. You just sit at the keyboard and type. So how hard can it be? Well,…
A Healthy Writer – Caring for Your Body Is Caring for Your Pen
A Healthy Writer – Caring for Your Body Is Caring for Your Pen If I don’t care for my body, writing becomes much more difficult. The outside of the body always affects the inside. What happens to your body works…
Writing from Your Scars and Not Your Wounds: A Guide for Aspiring Memoir Writers
Writing from Your Scars and Not Your Wounds: A Guide for Aspiring Memoir Writers Are you considering writing a memoir or a similar personal narrative? As someone who has navigated the challenging terrain of documenting my family’s story of cancer,…
How to Manage an Anthology
How to Manage an Anthology Compilation books, also called anthology books, seem to be popular these days. Probably because a chapter may not be tied to the next one making a quick read possible similar to a devotional. An anthology…
How Joining an Editors’ Association Made Me a Better Writer
How Joining an Editors’ Association Made Me a Better Writer You probably know that hiring an editor can improve your manuscript and your skills as a Christian writer. As Terri Blackstock says, “Behind every good writer is a great editor.”…
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