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July 10, 2020
Book Reviews: Special Helps for Authors and Readers
[This blog post is a collaboration between two of our members, and a great job they did! Nancy Kuykendall and Eileen Moynihan were in class when I was talking about writing book reviews. They graciously accepted the challenge to collaborate and write a blog post about that very thing. Enjoy and learn :)] Apparently,
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July 8, 2020
God’s Timing is Incredibly Wonderful
A Packet of Seeds, a Big Parking Lot, and an Unsent Text Christians agree God is interested in the “big picture”—love, repentance, forgiveness, salvation, grace and obedience. But I also believe He’s also interested in the tiny things—like the packet of seeds I picked up for Ellie’s pre-kindergarten class. My story illustrates another point as
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June 22, 2020
Eileen Moynihan Writes A Posy of Wild Flowers
The delightful new book A Posy of Wildflowers was written by Eileen Moynihan. It’s a children’s book of poetry that parents will also enjoy reading to their little ones. Who wouldn’t love a book of poems about Irish wildflowers and trees including their Irish names? More than a year ago, Eileen was admiring photographs taken
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June 18, 2020
Should You Always Write What You Know?
Many professional authors will advise that we should “Write what you know.” It is important for authenticity and grounding readers in our stories. It also helps us to stick to information, situations, and locations that are familiar. Writing only what I know can be a huge challenge for me. I have never met a dragon—though
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June 2, 2020
And now for something completely different…
In college earning my Master’s, I took a class on statistics. I’m not a “numbers” kind of person, or so I thought, until I took this class. I realized just how much numbers can tell a person about almost any subject. I also learned that randomness is rarely achieved even though it is a difficult,
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June 1, 2020
Writing Fight Scenes
Writing a fight scene is easy to get wrong. It’s also easy to get right. This blog post is adapted from a classic article I wrote in my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine back in October of 2006. That’s a long time ago, so I thought it was worth updating and posting on my blog. We’re
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May 26, 2020
Consider Author Collaboration
There are billions of readers on this planet. There are thousands of authors with one or two books. Even if it were possible to build a large readership for one or two books, an author will only satisfy a reader for a few hours. If an author spends all her resources branding one book, then
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May 19, 2020
Learn from the Tale of a Tale
The invitation came out of the blue. Would I like to write a magazine article on a person with a very interesting mission? I puzzled a bit—I’d never written for this magazine or on this topic before. However, I have written for a variety of magazines and also edited a business magazine. The editor’s choice
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May 15, 2020
Write, Write, Write
Is it for wealth? Is it a game, a compulsion, or a curiosity? I believe for many of us, writing is a calling. It may be a ministry to GOD Himself, a means of prayer and relating to Him. It may be a ministry to others, a bit of evangelism or theology. It may be
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April 29, 2020
Create a 3D Image for Your Author Website
As a writer, you want to display your book cover on your author website. But instead of simply your front cover, why not something more visually interesting – a 3-dimensional image of your book or a “composite” image of the formats your book is available in. Here is a composite image of the book The
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