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Don’t Take the Bait: How Aspiring Writers Can Spot Publishing Scams
Real publishing support makes a significant investment in your work. A scam asks you to invest in their promise.
Words That Connect
How can you know when your words are “timely”? Why is that so valuable? Timely words are precious, like gold apples in a silver setting.
Writing for an Audience of One
Writing for an Audience of One The key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not the way it expects.
Truth in a World of Illusion
What made the Pharisees’ actions hypocritical? These people express love with their mouths and their lips offer praise, but their hearts are somewhere else.
Writing that Starts a Conversation
The extensive utilization of multisyllabic terminology and obfuscatory phraseology, coupled with an overabundance of manufactured verbiage, runs counter to the goals and…
Grace: God’s Real Abiding Companionship Everywhere
If God is so gracious, forgiving, and generous, why doesn’t he give us what we want? Under what conditions will he give us what we want?
The Godly Way: A Writer’s Pursuit of Truth
Beyond fantasies and wishful thinking, let writers publish stories that let readers experience truth.
Wisdom Beyond Human Reason
How were the wise and foolish men different? Anyone who hears my words but never acts on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand, without a foundation.
Effort: The Writer’s Choice that Shapes the Journey
Effort must rise to the level of the dream, or the dream will fall to the level of the effort.
Readiness: Keeping Oil in Our Lamps
What are the differences and the similarities between the wise and foolish bridesmaids?
Before the First Word: Where Great Writing Starts
Ninety-nine percent of what looks like listening in the world is not genuine listening.
The Real Enemy: Where the Battle Is Actually Fought
What does temptation do, for and against people? People are tempted when their desires take them in a direction different from where God would have them go.