WHY YOU MIGHT NOT GROW AS A WRITER By Jeff B Miller I skied for three days last week in Colorado. I was excited to do this, because when I was 18 I skied three days in Colorado and grew exponentially in my ability. That was 33 years ago, and since then, I have …
Anatomy of a Christian Self-Help Book Hannah Lee Kidder at Self-publishingschool.com has done a thorough job explaining how to write a self-help book. The fact of the matter is writing a Christian self-help book is not much different. I don’t intend to be as thorough as Kidder, so her article is worth your time, …
What Do You Want? My goal: Do whatever I want… This is nearly impossible to explain to anyone, Christian or non-Christian. I’m in Colorado for a week as I write this. I’m here to ski. My wife asked me what I want, and I said I want to go skiing in Colorado. Before that she …
How To Love Life As A Christian (Writer) I Love Life I can’t help it. I love life. My (beautiful) wife tells me I was born with the theme song: “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.” Saturday was my 50th birthday and I told someone that I hoped to live …
You are a genius. You won’t make use of your creative power, though, unless you optimize your mind by the power of rumination. I was discussing rumination with my mother-in-law the other day, and she made the comment, “I wish you would use some other word besides ‘rumination.’ That just reminds me too …
Write Like You’re Running Out Of Time Have you ever seen the musical Hamilton? What I love about that story is the role that writing plays in shaping the founding of the United States. There is a song and a theme about how Alexander Hamilton was a writing machine. Why do you write like you’re running …
Want to see the coolest Bible verse for Christian Writers? Here it is: 1 I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. 2 And the …
Have A Growth Mindset To Improve Your Writing It was embarrassing. Who wrote this? It’s awful! Oh… I wrote it. Or did I? To be precise, a former version of me wrote it. I wrote it five years ago. Now I think it is trash. But I thought it …
When potential clients reach out to me, I ask a lot of questions. I want to know what they are writing about and why. I want to know who the book is for, meaning, who do they think is the ideal reader for their book. But one other question I’m asking is: Do they need …
Which Do You Need? A Ghostwriter or a Writing Coach? Read More »
How did this happen? How did I end up ghostwriting for a living? I don’t mind telling you that it was an accident. Stumbling on this Constant Contact blog post on the topic has me reflecting and I wanted to reverse engineer my process. There are probably lots of ways to get into ghostwriting, but …