Writing Tips
Never Stop Learning
When people start talking about writing conferences, many authors get sweaty palms, second guess their sanity in signing up for agent/ editor appointments and imagine locking their hotel room doors and never coming out until it’s time to go home. I’m guilty of all three. More than once. And even after attending conferences for over six…
ICRS Interview: Susan May Warren
The last couple of weeks my blog has been on the fritz and I still haven’t figured out how to upload my digital podcast to this site. Anyone know of a free podcast program??? But this interview is worth hearing again, in case you missed it the first time, you’re in for a treat. Please…
Back to school means…
Back to work for me and my three kiddos. We enjoy a short summer break-well, my kids do. I’m usually editing and rewriting. Then I spend one month writing out lesson plans. So maybe back to school just means adding more work. 😉 But it also means thinking about goals. The school goals I have for…
ICRS Interview: Susan May Warren
I’m so excited to bring to you the first of the ICRS interviews me and Terri Tiffany conducted. Between the two of us we interviewed authors like Karen Kingsbury, Terri Blackstock, James Scott Bell, Brandilyn Collins and many more. Join us on Saturdays the next couple of months for these interviews, some of which we…
Little By Little
I remember what is was like looking at published authors. They seemed to have everything together … and I seemed so lost on God’s plan for me. I’ve been looking back at old journals and it helps to remember how far God has brought me. Maybe this will also encourage those of you who are…
Promotion: to do or not to do
How much time do you spend on promoting? That’s a question I ask myself periodically. Lately it has crept up again. Promotion for an author is becoming more and more important. But where do you draw the line? If you spend too much time promoting, that means you aren’t writing. How do you balance promoting…
You must remember this…or maybe not
I found a link that may help when we’re writing to be more aware of the audience we’re targeting. My epiphany for the significance of frame of reference came one school year when I was discussing the assassination of President Kennedy. As a teacher, I know enough to realize when the eyes of everyone in…
Freedom
Earlier this month we celebrated the birth of our nation. The fourth of July took on an extra special meaning this year as we’ve studied early American history for homeschool and spent a week in Washington DC. Often the subject of freedom weaved its way into our reading and conversations. And into our hearts. My father and grandfather…
Simple Obedience
On the way home from church or during morning Bible reading time, my family and I often talk about something that jumps out at us in a passage. One time we were discussing 2 Samuel 24 where a plague had come over the Land of Israel and was stopped by the angel of the Lord…
Taking Time Off
As vital as BOC (behind on chair) time is for reaching our writing goals, so is time off. Maybe that’s politically incorrect to say in this day and age when most of us put in far more than forty-hour work weeks, but if we don’t take time away to recharge and live life, we’ll burn…