Writing with a Right Mindset

I now have several friends who are authors. I’ve known other authors, but it’s like buying a certain car. Once you’ve bought that brand/style/color…you see them everywhere! This is how it is for me.

14 Ways to Cure Writer’s Block

A blank page is a daunting thing, but sometimes the full page is even worse. You’ve gotten the words out, and now it’s time to move forward. Edit, rework passages, and refine the voice of the piece. There’s just one problem. You’re stuck. How do you take a work in progress and move to the […]

What the Gospel Writers Knew About ‘Show Don’t Tell’

You wouldn’t think the Gospels could teach us much about subtlety and hidden meaning in our creative writing, would you? They each tell the story of Jesus’ ministry in an apparently straightforward way, laying out what happened from their own clear perspectives. Yet, I found out just how subtle, and therefore how rich and extra-satisfying […]

The Disillusionment of Platform Building

In 2012, with a good dose of prompting from two friends, I ventured out into the vast sea of the blogosphere. Although I technically started a blog in 2011, I didn’t do much with it, nor did I have a clue about what it meant to blog. So after I met with my two friends […]