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7 Practical Ways to Meet Your Daily Word Count
By Alycia W. Morales, @AlyciaMorales It's important for writers to be writing. Otherwise, it's difficult to call oneself a writer. Eh? Some days it's a struggle to sit at the keyboard and put words on that screen. We all have them. The cursor blinks at us as if taunting us to…
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13 Truths About Being a Writer
by Edie Melson @EdieMelson Choosing to stand up and be identified as a writer can be a scary thing. The road is rarely a straight path to publication. These are some things that I hope will help you stay the course as you continue on your own writing journey [tweet_box…
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Quit Your Day Job?
By Tamela Hancock Murray, @Tamela_Murray Writers spend much time and effort creating books, and those who are serious about making a living — or at least supplementing household income — invariably reach the proverbial fork in the road when they must ask, “Do I have what it takes?” If…
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Comfort Zone/Chocolate Zone
By Rhonda Rhea, @RhondaRhea Think chocolate is not the answer? Maybe you’re not asking the right questions. Okay, I do know chocolate is not really the answer to all the world’s problems. But it does sort of make a challenge a bit more palatable. Chocolate-coating our discomforts—couldn’t hurt, right?…
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Writing Through Tragedy
By Lucinda Secrest McDowell, @LucindaSMcDowel Will we ever get used to hearing that there has been a mass murder of innocent people? That a hurricane has utterly destroyed an entire town or island? That in some utterly unimaginable way evil has been perpetrated on God’s creation? I hope not.…
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Writing in an Echo Chamber
By Eddie Jones, @EddieJonesTweet Jesus told us to go into the world and preach the gospel, but as Christian writers published predominantly by Christian publishers, too often we only write in an echo chamber to readers who already know and have accepted the Good News. What can we do to…
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