From the Archive
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 […]
Writer's Journey
5 Lessons from the Creative Road
The Creative Road. We’ve probably all heard the famous Robert Frost quote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, […]
Submissions
A Word for the Weary: Preparing to Submit Your Devotions to The Upper Room
So you’d like to get published, or perhaps you need a breather from writing a novel. Try writing “a word to sustain the weary soul” […]
Writing Tips
How To Craft a Compelling Bio
You’ve written a guest blog, article, or short story. You’re ready to submit. Then you see the dreaded words: “Please include a short bio, no […]
Marketing & Platform
Creative Marketing Part I: Becoming Known in the World
February 12, 2015
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Platform. Branding. Promotion. It’s about becoming known. Writers hope our books bring value or at least a joyful respite to our readers. But despite buckets […]
Marketing & Platform
Five Steps to Building Your Platform by Michael Hyatt
May 20, 2012
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Spiritual Life
Writer in the Wings
October 29, 2012
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Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive […]
Rejection
4 Things Not to Do When You’re Rejected
Within a span of four weeks, I received rejection emails from three publications and two publishers. How did I react? I hid under my cozy […]
Submissions
Insider Submission Tips from Focus on the Family’s Sheila Seifert
Focus on the Family’s director of parenting content, Sheila Seifert, wants to help writers prepare for submitting articles and increase their chances for being considered […]
