How To Reach Your Audience During the Holidays Without Losing Who You Are as an Author
I love scrolling through social media during the holidays. Posts about the birth of Christ during Christmas or articles about how to stay thankful amid Thanksgiving tend to be some of my favorites to happen across....
Continue ReadingWhere Influence Is Born
As writers, we’re natural consumers of all manner of reading material, pages and screens alike. Yet as we see other writers doing things we long to do, we can become discouraged by what...
Continue ReadingWhen You Want To Write a Book but You Don’t Know Where To Start
“It was a dark and stormy night.” These opening words by the character Snoopy in Charles Schulz’s famous comic strip Peanuts convey the struggle of starting a book. The cartoonist Charles...
Continue ReadingWhat Success Looks Like as a Christian Writer
Do you remember how you started writing? What was your motivation and highest desire? What were your goals? How did you picture your success as a Christian writer? Perhaps you have envisioned having a website; publishing...
Continue Reading6 Tips for When You Feel Stuck in Your Writing
Every writer knows the feeling of being stuck while writing. You may get stuck in writing a piece or stuck in developing an outline or just stuck in generating fresh ideas. You may have the feeling...
Continue ReadingHow To Land on a Writing Niche That Readers Want To Read
Are you finding it difficult to land on your writing niche? Do you have an idea you’re excited about, but you’re not sure it’s a topic that will resonate with readers? Maybe it needs to be...
Continue ReadingFive Questions To Ask Before Crafting Your Message
Staring at my computer, I felt enthusiasm give way to uncertainty. My carefully crafted message lacked power. What went wrong? In hindsight, I realized the broad topic lent itself to many different...
Continue ReadingHow To Pray When You Feel Weak in Your Writing
All writers experience dry seasons, but I bet you'll agree that "who" we work for amps up the inner critic that tries to convince us that we aren't worthy of our calling. Unless we expect and...
Continue ReadingWhen You Experience Doubt as a Writer
With worry in his eyes, my 4-year-old looked at me and cautiously asked, “Are you sure I can do it?” He had been practicing for weeks to get into the “zipper club” at school. This...
Continue ReadingFinding Space To Write When You Don’t Have Time
The distance to becoming an “author” seemed impossible when God first laid it on my heart. There’s the platform. And finding a publisher or self-publishing. Oh, and the time to write. And that is just...
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