Writing Seasonal Articles
Do you feel the snow in the air? Have you hung your stockings with care? Though you may be sitting under an air conditioner, many editors are knee deep in Christmas. They may even be putting together...
Continue Reading A Simple Solution to Your Writing Hesitations (& Giveaway!)
Today we have a special guest post from Amy Carroll, author of the newly-released Exhale: Lose Who You’re Not. Love Who You Are. Live Your One Life Well. Amy’s a member of the Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker...
Continue ReadingHow a Fake British Accent Empowered Creative Breakthrough
Today, we have a guest post from a professed "creative ninja" and the current teacher of our latest COMPEL course: A Writer's Guide to Creative Breakthrough. Jenny Randle is a national speaker, Emmy ® award-winning creative, author of Courageous...Continue Reading
Three Tips to Writing Productively
You are working on a project, sort of. You are on the computer a lot. You’re writing words. Yet when Friday rolls around, you admit that another week went by and you didn’t write that proposal or query...
Continue Reading Balancing Social Media and Writing
We need social media. We need to write. How do we do both? We don’t.
Today’s Tuesday Tip is perhaps the simplest tip I’ll ever share.
It changed my writing forever. When...Continue Reading How to Get the Most out of a Writers’ Conference
Did you know there are several major Christian writers’ conferences around the nation? Attending a conference in your area or traveling to a major conference holds many benefits. You will connect with other writers. You will learn more...
Continue ReadingFour Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Published A Book
How to Jump Start Your Writing
One way to chip away at writers’ block is to engage in a writing exercise. There are hundreds of writing exercises, but in today’s Tuesday Tip, we’ll share three to help jump start your writing.
Exercise #1: Memories
Describe...
A Great Way to Support Someone Called to Be A Writer
One of the hardest things about being a writer at times, especially a Christian nonfiction writer, is helping people understand the call on your life to do so. Not that friends and family don't want to support us...
Continue Reading Setting Goals that Make Sense (Part 2)
In last week’s COMPEL blog post, I shared how to brainstorm goals for the next six months and how to determine which you should delegate, defer, do, or delete. In today’s Tuesday Tip, we’ll share what to...
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