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Fiction authors need to read this
Here is an article from the current Publisher’s Weekly that is mandatory reading.
Personal Experience Stories
Having just returned from the Florida Christian Writer’s conference, I’m primed to blog about a topic that comes up again and again as I meet with aspiring writers. Many people go through extraordinary adversity and, understandably, want to write about how they came through it. But, sorry to say, these “personal experience” book proposals almost […]
Rules for Writing
I’m preparing to leave for my second writer’s conference this year. I’ll be on my way to Florida on Thursday, hoping for warm sunny weather. But before I go, I want to give you something fun to read. Take a look at this article. I love lists like this. I’ve seen Elmore Leonard’s list of […]
Conference Report
Wow, what a great conference! I’m speaking, of course, of the Christian Writer’s Guild conference that Jerry Jenkins and his wonderful staff put on each year. Naturally, I was there as an editor to represent Harvest House, but in so doing, I often listened to the speakers and the conferees through a writer’s ears. Here […]
Off to a conference
I’m leaving Thursday for my first writer’s conference of the year. I’ll be in Denver at this conference. I hope to see some of you there. If not, I hope I see you at SOME writer’s conference this year. It’s important to get to at least one conference a year if you’re serious about writing. […]
Characters
Some of you know I’m big on characterization in fiction. Yes, novels must also have plots, a theme, and all sorts of other stuff…but characterization is at the top of my list. (My friend and author, James Scott Bell, and I will be debating this topic again at the Oregon Christian Writer’s Conference this summer. […]