Tag: am writing
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Being Fearless: What Nobody Tells You About Becoming an Author
When you have finally finished your manuscript and you’ve revised it the best you feel it can be, there comes the moment where you’re most likely going to take a publishing route. Sometimes that publishing route is traditional, sometimes it’s self-publishing. But once you’re on that path, there are a thousand doubts that enter your…
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The Dark Side of Christian Fiction
Historically speaking, the idea of a Christian novel is a relatively new concept. In fact, for a Christian to be reading novels was considered sinful in the church up until the early 1900s. It was considered taboo, especially for women. Why, you ask? Because—since the stories in them were not true, it was considered lying.…
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Writing Advice That Doesn’t Work For Everyone
As a writer, have you ever been given writing advice? How did it influence you – negatively or positively? In today’s post, I really wanted to discuss common writing advice that doesn’t work for everyone…
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Book Trends in 2019
One thing that self-pub and traditional-pub authors alike need to pay attention to is the book trends for the year. They don’t have to write their books to follow those trends, of course, but it’s always good to be aware…
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On Writing Support Groups
Honestly the title of this blog post should be, “On Writing Support Groups and What to Watch Out For,” because not all writing groups provide the support you deserve or even need. I’ve been involved in quite a few writing groups: at conferences, at homeschool group clubs, ones that meet monthly, family, and then of…
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Common Downsides to Self-Publishing
While I love self-publishing for multiple reasons and there are a lot of serious self-pub authors that do as well, I can’t deny that there are a handful of downsides to self-publishing. There are downsides to traditionally publishing as well, but since I’m strictly self-pub at the moment and those of you reading may be…
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My Editing Process
Hi, everyone! Today I’m going to be talking about my editing process. I briefly discussed this in an Instagram post when I was posed the question not too long ago, but I thought it might be neat to recap it here and possibly go into a little bit more depth…
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My Favorite/Least Favorite Writing Tropes
I am literally SO EXCITED to talk with you about my favorite and least favorite writing tropes today! I wasn’t 100% sure at first whether I was going to include this in my writing discussions, but it’s such a fun topic that I figured why not?
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Marketing Ideas & Strategies for Aspiring Authors
Today I wanted to discuss some marketing strategies and ideas with you guys. This post is probably going to be more geared toward writers that are looking to self-pub or have already self-published a novel or two, but I hope that no matter what publishing path you’re looking at, you’ll be able to take some…
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Don’t Be Sorry, Be Better: On Themes in Writing
Themes in writing is one of the hardest things to convey well. And that, I believe, is due to one reason: themes tend to come off as preachy…
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