Meet Penny. Exuberant, talented, well-liked Penny. Penny lived in a very unusual town next to the ocean, and because she read books every day, she was almost perfectly happy in every way. Except for one. You see, Penny loved to fish. And she didn’t know if she should love it so much, especially since she’d never learned to swim. But
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If you’re a writer, you might as well accept it: you need help. Your friends have been saying it for years, right? But if you write for God, you need more than mental help. In 2004 I started this blog to inspire authors to write for a greater purpose. I envisioned a website where writers could learn, socialize, develop and
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I stepped out of the car and onto the sidewalk. The bright windows of the empty shop in front of us reflected the water and sky broken by the narrow line of the bluffs behind. I pushed the button and immediately realized, I was getting the call, the call we’d been waiting for. I was being let go. Laid off.
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This is part 3 in a 6-part series, "Your Best Book Now." Or "Everything You Need to Know to Create a Bestseller." Or "Breaking Into the Publishing Sweatshop, er, Industry". This week's episode: "How to Write a Top-Notch Proposal." So, dear authors, you’ve got your 3 wheels, or 3 legs well on their way and you’re becoming a Perfect-3
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This is part 2 in a 6-part series on writing your best book now. With apologies to Thomas Nelson and Joel Osteen. You’ve noticed the perfect 3. It’s holding together your beginning, your complication, and your resolution. It’s in liquid, ice, and steam. It’s the animal, the mineral, and the vegetable. It makes up the trinity, the cord of 3
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