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My Toaster Hates Me: Four Ways to Unstick Your Writing

November 16, 2017 4

I’m convinced my toaster hates me. I place soft, fluffy bread into its yawning mouth, and I get a blackened lump of coal in return. […]

Great Openings Contest Nonfiction Runner-Up: Temper the Wind by Brenda Wilbee

August 20, 2020 4

Where are the trees? I shift into first, then bump slowly across the cattle guard into Meteor Ranch. I tap the brakes and stare in […]

How to Break the Andy Syndrome: Tips for Writing for a Magazine

August 24, 2017 8

I feel your pain, Miranda Priestly. Miranda is the perfectionist editor-in-chief of Runway, a top fashion magazine in The Devil Wears Prada. One morning she […]

Tackling the Not-So-Dreaded Synopsis

March 9, 2012 Comments Off

It happened quite by accident. I’m not the genius Angela Hunt, award winning author and speaker, proclaimed me to be, two years ago at a […]

How to Write an Attention-Grabbing Title

September 3, 2020 4

Some say a title can make or break a book. I agree. A few years ago, I pitched a book on aging I called 60 […]

When You Don’t ‘Succeed’…

October 22, 2014 Comments Off

A show of hands, please? How many of you have ever claimed this “promise” verse? Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will […]

Writing 101: A Masterclass in 10 Quotes

November 12, 2020 3

“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean ‘More people died’ don’t say “Mortality rose.” ~ C. S. Lewis “A good […]

You’ve Been Rejected! What Now?

May 30, 2019 4

I stared at my email inbox for several moments. Six unread messages. Three announcing sales that I can’t afford to miss! Delete. Delete. Delete. An […]