Archive for the 'On High Quality' Category

Are You a PERFECT 3 Author?

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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How to Write Your Best Book Now

This is part one in a 6-part, totally free master class on everything you need to know to write "your best book now," with apologies to Joel Osteen and Thomas Nelson. Part 1: The manuscript You have 6 jobs before your manuscript is ready for professional editing, and then submission to an editor.  Job #1: Start by reading (preferably memorizing) The Elements of Style
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A Writer’s Sacrifice

A writer was just starting her story. But it wasn't working. I told her so. She had a good start, but there wasn’t enough interest. She realized she needed to give readers a better sense of the big problem that started her out on her journey. But she didn't know if she could do it. I said we’ve got to
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On Quality and Excellence and What Does It Really Matter?

I think it’s about time for another of my old fashioned diatribes on high quality. It's been a while since I picked up the old saw, and I found this today on my local classical music station and couldn't wait to share it.    Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) was a contemporary of Bach’s who has nearly disappeared for even classical
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Christian Pop Culture and the “Missing Middle”

You may not share this mission.  Maybe you feel more strongly for something else. Maybe your creative spirit soars to different music. Maybe you don't know what I'm on about discussing books for this "missing middle." That's okay. Do your thing and do it well. But for nearly 20 years, maybe longer, I've been disappointed by Christianity. I've lived in the
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