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Interviews
Building a Fiction World through Your Blog
Novelists strive to draw readers into their characters’ worlds, tirelessly crafting scenes to develop realistic settings within the limits of one novel or a series […]
Inspire Anthologies
How Is God Using the Inspire Anthologies?
May 27, 2017
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As the Inspire Love anthology May 31, 2017 deadline approaches, some Inspire writers are sighing with relief because they submitted early. Some are editing, editing, […]
Getting Published
Writing for Magazines: An Interview with Steve Laube
June 16, 2016
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Thanks for joining us, Steve. Please explain why you believe writing for magazines is such a huge ministry opportunity? The nature of magazines is that […]
Interviews
So, You Think You Can Make Readers Laugh?
Writing humor isn’t for cowards. Like comedians onstage at the Improv, humor writers don’t really know if their audience will laugh in all the right […]
Spiritual Life
Writing Past the Doubts
I’ve just broken through a 3-day writing slump. For three solid days I couldn’t write a cohesive sentence to save my life, which thank God, was never […]
New Year
Our Most Read Blog Posts of 2020
January 7, 2021
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As has become our tradition, we begin the new year by looking at what our web site visitors were actually reading on the Inspire blog […]
Author Interview
From Tears to Triumph: An Interview with Linda Bello-Ruiz
March 18, 2014
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Christian author Linda (Cassells) Bello-Ruiz has written an award-winning memoir called From Tears to Triumph, My Journey to The House of Hope. Originally from Redwood […]
Craft of Writing
10 Ways to Strengthen Our Characters
March 3, 2012
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Readers want strong main characters. No one wants to read a story with a weak one. I knew that. Really I did. Why, then, did […]
Contest Winners
Fast & Furious Contest Flash Fiction Winner: Lily’s Gift by Lori De Jong
“Tilda, she’s so beautiful, don’t you think?” Tilda Atherton looked at the tiny infant girl in her sister’s arms. “Yes, Lily, but you remember what […]
