Archive for the 'A Christian Writing Revolution?' Category

Progressive Publishing Program, Part 1: Finish Your Book (for Free) with a Writing Coach

Some offers are just hard to believe, aren't they?  The day I came up with the idea for a "progressive publishing program," I didn't believe it either.   But here's a confession: I’ve always been something of a skeptic. As a small(er) babbler, I remember seeing the commercial for the Tootsie Roll pop and I determined to prove them wrong.
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How Authors Get Everything They Really Want: The Death of Traditional Publishing “Success”

What is “success” as an author? This question has more answers than Carter has pills. (My grandpa liked to say this, which always made me feel badly for whoever Carter was. Who is Carter and why does he have so many pills?) Ah, this is great. I'm munching some popcorn Charlotte, my 5 year old, just brought me from her
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Why Absolutely Everything Is about the Story

I had this thought yesterday: Everyone who lives with barriers to belief who has made a conscious negative response about faith has fully misjudged God. The realization of that stopped me. Somehow I knew it was a glimpse of God’s perspective and his true love for those he misses. And so I stopped and considered it. And no more than
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Why the New Books Want to Be Free

Convergence. Moving toward union or uniformity; especially coordinated movement of the two eyes so that the image of a single point is formed. We might hold such truth to be self-evident, but convergence, the merging of distinct ideas, people, industries, and technologies into a unified whole balanced in equality, is the basis of our government, healthy relationships, of spiritual lives,
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The All-Time Top Reasons to Pursue Big Publishing, Part 2

Great conversation about this so far. I want to get to some of the comments at the end here. One thing that hasn't sat well with me since "coming out" here about my secret thoughts has been the people I feel I'm leaving open. There's always a repercussion. When I was taking on the quality level of Christian fiction it
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