Tag: fiction writing
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Trusting God as a Writer
Let’s be honest for a moment. Have you ever felt that you are wasting your time writing? You have worked countless hours and at the end of the day you might feel that you have nothing to show for it.
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The Good and Bad of the Romance Genre
Before February (the “month of love”) comes to an end, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about romance novels. Now, romance is the top selling genre of books, which means a lot of people not only buy romance novels, but also read them.
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Writing For A Better Tomorrow
“I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.” That is the opening line of a novel by an old Scottish minister. You may recognize it because his novels have long outlived him. They’ve endured through the years–some being over a century-and-a-half old. This man was truly a…
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Writing A Good Hook
When you go fishing, you need a hook to catch a fish. In a similar way, you need a hook to “catch” the attention of your reader. You need something that grabs them by the throat and forces them to keep on reading. Because they’ll never get the time they spent reading your book back,…