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The Joy of Research
I love research. There. I can admit. I love the fact that now I know a stamp cost 3 cents in 1943. That a movie ticket was 17 cents. That half of all K-9s used during World War II by the military were trained at a remote fort in Nebraska. That there were less than…
Giving Your Writing Journey to God
LIKE MANY OF YOU, I have been working toward being a novelist my whole life. It’s taken years of hard work and God to get to this place and it’s only been in the last few years that God has moved the waiting pieces together. When I was younger, I thought I wanted to write…
Guest Blogger: Michelle Gregory
For twenty years, I was a fiction writer who avoided writing: I’d read at least a dozen books about writing, I wrote in a journal, I shared family stories in my scrapbooks, and I blogged. But deep down inside of me, I knew I was a writer, and I almost never gave that side of…
Review of Calm, Cool & Adjusted by Kristin Billerbeck
Calm, Cool & Adjusted by Kristin Billerbeck Product Details # ISBN: 1591453305 # Format: Paperback, 320pp # Publisher: Integrity Publishers # Series: Spa Girls Collection Series, #3 From the Publisher: Best friends since Johnny Depp wore scissors for hands, “The Spa Girls” live very separate lives, but stay in touch with routine visits to California’s…
I’m a Goalaphobic!
Okay, there! I admit it! I’m a goalaphobic, but I haven’t always been this way. I used to make lists and write out pages and pages of goals and plans for my life five and ten years down the road. Then I had kids and the exercise, career and life long goals in general went…
ACFW: Mission Accomplished
What a wonderful ride! It’s so hard to put into words this year’s ACFW experience, but if I had to choose one word, for me it would be emotional! My second word would be peace! From laughter to tears, from education to building relationships, ACFW Dallas had it all. Worship was incredible. The spirit of…
Got Conflict?
Conflict! Boy, can I write a book on just that subject… There’s homeschooling trials, disobedient kids, piles of laundry, marital spats, being locked out of the home, the occassional trip to the Emergency Room, and let’s not forget internal conflict like that ever present mom guilt. While most of my conflict isn’t as dramatic as…
When is Enough Editing, Really Enough?
I’ve been working on the same WIP, no the same prologue for almost two years now. I’ve entered it in contests and got critiques. My crit partners have bleed all over my pages and it was even critiqued by an agent. All had great things to say. And with every critique I made changes. I…
What’s a chapter-by-chapter synopsis?
Some editors or agents ask for a chapter-by-chapter synopsis. Not all of them do, so don’t automatically assume you need one. However, it’s the easiest type of synopsis to write, in my opinion. It’s simply a list of each chapter number, and then a couple sentences describing what happens in the chapter. Any significant spiritual…
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