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Polish Your Novel. Strengthen Your Author Career. (opens the original)
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I hope you’re making excellent headway on your current work in progress. To help you along, I wanted to make sure you know about two author resources, happening now.Happy writing!!Self-Editing Challenge<div class="image2-in
The Longest Route to Craft Competence (opens the original)
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I just finished a three-book project that took an embarrassingly long time to complete. For a minute there, I thought it might defeat me.The problem wasn’t a lack of time, mental space, or gumption. It was one thousand percent a lack of know-how. Up to that point, I’d tackled only simple interior design in MS Word, and lately, I’ve let Atticus do it for me.This was vastly different.Let me tell you, interior designers earn their keep.Problems came at me from every side: margins, illustrations, ex
Retiring the Superwoman Cape: Marilyn Turk on Writing Your Own Calling (opens the original)
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What happens when the writing life God gives you doesn’t look like the one everyone else tells you to build? Author Marilyn Turk’s story is about what she’s learned to stop doing. After years of comparison, rejection, self-doubt, and trying to follow every piece of advice about what a successful writer should write, produce, and promote, she has learned to “retire the superwoman cape.” Her encouragement to beginning Christian writers is wonderfully freeing: stop trying to be somebody else. Pay a
Are You Prepared to Talk About Your Calling? (opens the original)
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I had an unexpected conversation at the car wash today.One of the attendants, a young man who came over to help dry my car, asked what I do.I told him I write biblical fiction, an answer that came easily, which is interesting in itself.I’ve only recently started saying “biblical fiction” when people ask what I write because until last year, it was a side project. But in January, I realized I needed to go in whole hog. Since then, I’ve embraced it and made a complete genre shift from Christian hi
The Tortoise Track: When God’s Calling Takes Longer Than You Expected (opens the original)
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What if you’ve been called to write, but the doors just won’t open?Historical romance author Sherry Shindelar dreamed of becoming a writer from the age of nine. It wasn’t until fifty years later that she received the publishing contract she’d long hoped for.In this Called to Write Chat, we talk about what it means to recognize writing as a calling, how God can use even the mundane seasons of life to ready us for the work, and why calling doesn’t mean the work will come easily.Sherry also shares
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