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 …
My Monthly Attempt To Make Ghostwriting Normal When I became a ghostwriter I wasn’t focused on the fact that my clients wanted me to write a book and put their name on it. I was focused on the fact that I got to write for a living and when I considered I didn’t get …
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 …
Find your Niche By CGW Staff Writer Why You Need a Niche It is hard to enter the arena of writers in the world today. The goal is relatively simple: you have something to say, and you want people to come to hear it. The goal may be simple, but as you likely know …
Good writing has a lot to do with simple mechanics. I love the idea that writing comes down to understanding and mastering the component parts of a piece: paragraphs, sentences, parts of speech, punctuation, and things like that. Here are some basics on the mechanics of writing, and below I’ll include one of the best …
Lola, at https://christianediting.co.nz/believable-christian-fiction/ has written an excellent article on how to write a Christian Novel. She highlights, writing about what we know so that we will be authentic, engaging in prayer as the foundation of our writing, refraining from judging other writers, particularly in other genres, and the age old, but still needed advice of …