Beauties of a Writer’s Retreat -Refilled and Refreshed
by Sarah Tun Imagine walking in pristine wilderness, sitting lakeside, or basking in the fresh air, with the warm sunshine on your face. Imagine solitary space and time, just to write. These are just some of the possible advantages of taking a writer’s retreat. You can be somewhere you love, alone, to write. Internet silence,
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Get Published Now — Podcast featuring Gina Burgess
Here is a podcast I recently did with Paul Brodie. You can listen to this podcast by clicking the link. We are kicking around the idea of posting podcasts. We’d like to know what you think about it. Would it be helpful? Tell us what you think. How often? What subject matter to discuss? Interviews?
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Types of Editing
by Jann Martin We ALL need help with editing. Even the people that type the messages into electronic signs. We passed this one the other day. At Authors Community we want to help you with all of the steps of making your manuscript be the best it can be. When we get your manuscript through
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How to Create, Cultivate, & Maintain an Active Author/Reader Group on Facebook!
(Originally published on One Author to Another blog by Samantha Cole, Sept. 21, 2018. Reprinted with permission.) By Samantha Cole Some of the most frequent questions I see in author groups have to do with creating, cultivating, and maintaining an author’s FB reader group for fans of their books. When should I start one? How
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DisABLED Writer—Dealing with Fear and Focus
by Cherrilynn Bisbano Many writers endure physical and/or mental challenges as they try to get their words on paper. I have a friend who died in a car accident. God revived him and called him to write. His traumatic brain injury doesn’t keep him from obeying God. He studies the craft and edits his manuscript,
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Cover Stories
by Margaret Welwood “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is one adage that doesn’t work for young children. So how do we get these powerful little judges on our side? Reading to children is an incredibly rich source of feedback on illustrations, plot, pacing, and wording. Cover artists also do well by offering young
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Trash or Treasure
by Marilyn Friesen Someday I would like to write a classic. But how would you define one? It seems like what was regarded as classics in the past aren’t as highly esteemed by the publishers of the present, that is if you came to the same conclusion I did from a previous article. Were you
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Novel Starting Point: Where, oh, Where to Start?
by Sarah Tun In recent posts we’ve been discussing flashbacks and general structure of a longer piece of writing. Today, I’d like to raise some thoughts about choosing the starting point for a novel. I have completed several full length manuscripts. Each time I’ve developed a story line, I’ve begun with the focus on my
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An Issue of Time Bearing Fruit
by Tom Blubaugh Time is an intriguing phenomenon. Humans measure time in seconds (nano, micro, milli), minutes, hours, days, weeks, fortnights, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia. Humans have recorded events of time past–history. The future’s an unknown, except for what the Bible says in the Book of Revelation and some answers to questions by
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