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Voices of Experience: Why Mature Christian Writers Are Important
This is the sixth and final in a series of posts on various types of writers worth giving our attention to. Those with military and missionary service in their backgrounds, young writers, creative writers, and humble writers can each contribute to the conversation within the church as they each have valuable perspectives. Many writers are a combination of these types, and today’s focus can also be …
The Writer Who Doesn’t Know What They Don’t Know
Dan Balow has been posting a series of blogs on different types of writers. I’ve been reading the posts with great interest, and I wanted to add one other type of writer I’ve come across: The writer who doesn’t know what he/she doesn’t know. I’ve been going to conferences and attending or speaking to writers groups now for over fifteen years. At these conferences, we have these things called …
Where Do I Even Start?
I’m often asked, “Where do I even start?” Well, I want to share the same encouragement that was given to me so many years ago and a few practical tips to start your journey into writing professionally. Start writing. I know it sounds oversimplified, but write anywhere and write often. Keep a journal, compose a blog, or beef up your social media captions. Just write. Writing regularly not only …
Review Any and Every Contract You Sign
Today’s headline sounds like a blinding flash of the obvious, but you’d be surprised how many writers are not careful about the agreements they sign. Those with a literary agent have a business partner who will review their book contracts; that is a given. But that does not remove the writer’s responsibility. And what about their magazine or online article contracts? Years ago, the Condé …
Fun Fridays – May 19, 2023
Today’s video is the theme song of our selfie and Tik-Tok world. The lyrics tell the tale. Enjoy!
Will Someone Steal My Book?
It’s a common question I hear among writers, especially among those who are starting out in the long journey toward publication: “Will someone steal my book?” Or “my idea?” Or “my plot?” And so on. Some writers are loath to show their work to a critique group or submit to an agent or editor, for fear that someone will take their title or idea or writing and pass it off as their own. Believe it or …
The Never-Ending Stories
One of the reasons Christian authors can run out of things to write about is they write only from personal experience. Personal experiences are finite, and you are bound to run out of material. Your personal experiences give you one thing that can be used to write a hundred books: a perspective on God and living the Christian life, not only the actual things to write about. So, Christian writers …
I Did Not Finish Reading Your Book
In the past year, have you started reading a fiction or nonfiction book and did not finish it? I have. Many times. There are a lot of reasons for this to happen. Here are a few examples. Fiction: I didn’t care about your characters. The plot fizzled. The story became ridiculous and unrealistic. It was too easy to put down. Or, in other words, it was forgettable. Nonfiction: It became …
Fun Fridays – May 12, 2023
Made entirely out of Legos? Watch this video, even for a small bit of time and be amazed. Think of the time to engineer this thing! Sort of like creating a book. Hmmmm. One word, then another, then repeat until finished. “Simple,” he says. “Easy,” he says. But there is a masterpiece awaiting someone willing to do the work.