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How Do You Want Your Book to Serve Readers?
Writers tend to think about what a book can do for them, and it can certainly do a lot of things for you. You can grow a business, earn income, build your reputation and credibility, and much more. However, writing is...
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Too Busy to Listen to the Critics
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “People who are too busy rowing the boat don’t have time to rock it.” The meaning is pretty straightforward: when you are occupied with doing the work, you don’t...
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Marketing is All About People
Remember the 1980’s movie “Field of Dreams” with Kevin Costner? He plays a farmer who is roaming out in his field one day, and he hears a voice. “Build it and he will come.” He has no idea what the voice means until...
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The Introverted Writer’s Dilemma
There are many advantages to being an introverted writer. You enjoy being alone, which is a big benefit when trying to get your writing done. You’d mostly rather spend your time with books than people, which can help...
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Melissa Bloom on Moving Past Fear, Doubt, and Overwhelm
Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Writer. For a while now, I’ve been wanting to do a series of conversations focused around mental health for writers. Everybody knows mental health is important, and we see...
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Becky Kopitzke on Making Money and Serving God with Your Writing
If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you’re probably familiar with my story. I used to be a pastor, then I was a teacher at a Christian college for a long time before I made ghostwriting and coaching...
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Fundamentally Trustworthy
Much has been written about the voice that lives in every writer’s head. We normally think and talk about this voice as a bad thing. So, it’s not a surprise that we think of that voice as untrustworthy. But if you...
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How to Instantly Multiply Your Ideas
John Steinbeck said, “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” Writers are known for their creativity, but the truth is that the well sometimes runs...
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Be a Person of Value
Every writer talks about wanting success, but what does success actually mean? How do you measure it? Is it even a worthy goal in the first place? Those are valid questions, but they aren’t what we should be asking...
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Are You Listening to Your Life?
Author and teacher Parker Palmer wrote a profound little book called Let Your Life Speak. In the book, he writes, “Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”  ...
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Make Your Own Luck
The greatest superhero movie ever made is 2008’s The Dark Knight. The movie is admired for many reasons, the biggest of which is Heath Ledger’s amazing performance as Batman’s arch-nemesis, the Joker. But one of the...
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Writing The Go-Giver Marriage (with John David & Ana Mann)
Picture this: You are the co-author of an enormously successful business book series. You want to write another book in the series, but it’s on a very different topic than the others. You also want to write it with...
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