Category: Writing Tips

  • How Much Does Your Book Cover Really Matter?

    By Hannah Linder Imagine showing up for the most important job interview of your life. You’ve earned the degree, researched the company, felt confident in the skills you can bring to the table, and prayed over the opportunity for so long. Now is your chance. You pull into the parking…

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  • Writing Research Blues

    By Darlene L. Turner @darlenelturner Research—a chore or fun? Doesn’t matter the genre. Every writer has to do some sort of investigation in order to get facts straight and make their stories authentic. Some writers love research while others get the blahs when it comes to this aspect of the process.…

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  • Writing Submission Dos and Don’ts

    By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted Learning the skill of writing comes with a lot of vague areas. For example, writing on a publishable level differs from writing a college paper. The grammar doesn’t change, but the styles are two different bears. Sometimes, the only way to learn the tricks of the…

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  • Writing Classes, Classes, Everywhere!

    by: Shannon Redmon @shannon_redmon If you were to look into the deep, dark recesses of my computer files you might find one or two completed manuscripts that never saw the light of day. I loved those books when I first wrote them, even cherished them as my first completed book…

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  • Beginning Writers Do Get Published

    By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin Over the last 20 years Greg Stielstra, author of Pyromarketing, marketed hundreds of Christian books including The Purpose Driven Life. During that time, he noticed a disturbing trend. Some Christian authors sought fame because they believed only celebrities could influence culture. What’s more, they thought to…

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  • How Do Qualifier Words Really Qualify?

    by Ane Mulligan  @AneMulligan There are words that are wonderful and words that are—well, not so wonderful. I keep telling myself that, yet I forget when I write and thus inflict a great burden upon my inner editor. Like Alice, I give myself good advice, but I seldom follow it.…

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