How to Write Books Boys Will Love With Tim Shoemaker
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The Writing Life
Hacks for Inspiring Ideas and Descriptions
Seeking inspiration? Here are fun and weird hacks for writers. 1. Read advice columns to find ideas for creating conflict in novels. The problems people pose to columnists are rife with family drama, misunderstandings among friends, marriage issues, and romantic entanglements. Even columns about etiquette offer an array of tenuous situations. When you locate some columnists online, you may …
Voices of Persistence: Why Humble Writers Are Important
This is the fifth in a series of posts on various types of writers I think would be worthwhile giving our attention to. Those with military and missionary service in their backgrounds, young writers, and creative writers can each contribute to the conversation in the church as they each have perspectives different than what we see and hear around us today. A persistent and humble writer might fit …
Who Decides to Publish Your Book?
The editor you met with at a writers conference liked your proposal and asked you to send it to her after the conference. She was already talking about format and promotional ideas. Or you submitted a proposal and received an enthusiastic response from the acquisitions editor. Four (or maybe six to eight) months later, a rejection letter showed up in your inbox. What happened? No matter how much …
Can Macros Make Me a Better Writer?
Don’t be afraid of macros. They can be your friend. A macro is a shortcut you can make in, say, Word (or virtually any program) to automate or accelerate certain tasks. If you’ve never done it before, rather than explain it here, let me suggest that you search the web for “how to create a macro in Word” or on your specific computer. (For example, in a Mac, you can go to your …
Hacks for Day-to-Day Writing
An impulse as a writer is to get to an ending before shutting down the computer for the day. The productive author might decide not to stop writing until the end of a scene or a chapter. With fiction, the author feels relieved when the character has arrived at a good stopping place. With nonfiction, the author may have finished summing up five ways to declutter a closet, and that’s that. …
Personal vs. Professional Social Media
As more and more people work from home full-time, the lines are blurred like at no other time. For writers, mixing personal and professional lives often doesn’t go well. Years ago, I recall speaking with a young man who owned a store that was part of his family for several generations; and he and his young family lived in a nice apartment located upstairs from the store. To me, who at the time …
What to Expect at the Write to Publish Writers Conference
Find out what to expect and how to make the most of your first in-person Christian writers conference.
You can listen to this episode What to Expect at the Write to Publish Writers Conference on Christian Publishing Show.
What to Expect at the Write to Publish Writers Conference
Find out what to expect and how to make the most of your first in-person Christian writers conference.
You can listen to this episode What to Expect at the Write to Publish Writers Conference on Christian Publishing Show.
What to Expect at the Write to Publish Writers Conference
The director of the Write to Publish Christian writers conference shares what to expect from your first in-person conference.www.NovelMarketingConference.com Support the show