How To Give and Receive Constructive Criticism, by Shirley Jackson
How do you feel about constructive criticism? For years I’ve experienced a love-hate relationship with it. Whether solicited or uninvited,…
Category: Writing
How Your Writing Heroes Can Become Your Writing Teachers in Five Seconds or Less
Today’s blog post comes from Book Proposal Boot Camp member and writer Taylor Murray. _____________________________________ I read my first novel by…
Practicing Vulnerability in Your Writing
Today’s blog post comes from Book Proposal Boot Camp member and writer Alison Brehme. _____________________________________ Have you ever had writer’s block…
Where do words come from?
Today’s blog post comes from Book Proposal Boot Camp member and writer Kelly Tuten. _____________________________________ “A good man brings good…
The Year of All Years to Finally Write A Book: 2021 is Your Year!
At COMPEL Training, we understand the disappointments of delayed dreams and crushing disappointments that many of us felt during 2020,…
COMPEL Training’s best writing wisdom from 2020! (Check out our video!)
Friend, I’m not sure where your heart or head is at today. Maybe your heart is bruised from the past…
Taking Your First Steps as a Writer
Today’s blog post comes from Encouragement for Today writer, Alexandra Hoover. I remember the first time my daughter, Leilla, took…
Writing What Resonates
Today’s COMPEL blog post comes from Encouragement for Today writer, Kelly Barbrey. It’s rare I sit down and write a…
Our God is Not a God of Maybes
Today’s COMPEL Blog post comes from Encouragement for Today writer, Corrie Gerbatz. It was 1:00pm. The time I had intentionally set aside…
P.A.C.E. Your Writing Life
This week’s COMPEL Blog post was written by Encouragement for Today writer Laura Bailey. “Writing is so much more than putting…