Each Monday, church staff writer Bill Thompson had to write a devotion that complemented the weekend message. On the following day each week, his devotion was sent to a huge...
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In English classes, students are taught the importance of having an outline before writing the story. Outlining is important for nonfiction presentation of facts, history, and news in general. But...
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Is the power of a story found in its explosive moment, or might it be somewhere else? Fireworks are fun. Back when I was nine, fireworks were legal in town....
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For readers to create mental pictures from your stories, they need specific details of the way things are. We can make the picture stronger if we find ways to focus...
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Tom already had two pressing deadlines. The odds weren’t good for finishing them before he was sent a book manuscript to edit. He felt like a sailboat moving into a...
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Find a picture that represents your female character. Where is she? What is she thinking, feeling, and doing? With a vivid picture, you can find great words. If...
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Success depends on expectation and effort. If money is your mission, get ready to be disappointed. Just a fraction of a percentage point of all books sold. Some 80 percent...
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Let all the senses—sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste—cause your character’s world to make sense to your readers. One of the best ways to create vivid pictures is to ask...
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Much of today’s society won’t listen to your truth. Why? They have their own truth. To believe otherwise would require displacement of their truth with new truth, which they’ve always...
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We have seven days in a week and twenty-four hours in a day, but it all happens one second at a time. You anticipate what comes next, but you can’t...
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
