You sit down at your desk, open your laptop or notebook and then – you get up to make a cup of coffee… Here are some ways to overcome writers’ displacement activity.
How to Overcome Writers’ Displacement Activity: What’s Really Going On Read More »
For many of us, especially writers aspiring to book publication, New Year is a pivotal time to reflect on turning our hopes and dreams into tangible realities. The following methodology works for goals of any kind, not just writerly.
How to Achieve One Big Goal for 2025: A Writer’s Journey Read More »
Annmarie Miles, social media trainer, shares some vital tips to ‘give us a bit of an edge,’ with marketing our books.
Good writing creates engaging characters by showing not telling. We shall use an example from Chapter 2 of the biblical Book of Ruth that is beautifully and economically written to demonstrate how we learn masses about three characters just from action and dialogue.
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As I write about Mary of Nazareth, I am having to consider her Bethlehem, her Nazareth, her Jerusalem and anywhere else her account of her finding purpose after mothering Jesus takes me.
Transporting ourselves back in time, walk with me the streets of Jerusalem in Mary’s day.
The Jerusalem Where Mary Wandered and Wept Read More »
What genre are you writing in when you take the Bible as inspiration? Exploring Biblical midrash, fiction and creative non-fiction.
What Genre Do You Love? Read More »
Considerations when seeking the right name for our characters that evokes who they are, where they are from and when they lived.
What’s in a Name? 6 Considerations When Naming Our Characters Read More »
How can we capture the character of real people we want to write about as real life characters? We need to observe the clues in whatever evidence we can find…
Creating Real Life Characters Read More »
How God helped Natasha Woodcraft write The Wanderer Scorned, a midrash about Cain, the world’s first murderer. Plus, her innovative book marketing strategy.
The World’s First Murder: Interview With Author Natasha Woodcraft Read More »
An example of story world creation: the Book of Ruth
Story World Experiment: Putting Flesh On The Barebones Of ‘Ruth’ Read More »
