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emotional markers for writers

Emotional Markers for Writers

May 21, 2023 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  5 Comments

What are emotional markers for writers?

There’s a tongue-in-cheek video circulating with the theme “Everybody should write a book.” The farcical theory is that it’s not that hard. You don’t really need skills. Anybody can do it. All authors are …

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If You Build Your Audience Too Soon

April 9, 2023 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  10 Comments

What can happen if you build your audience too soon?

audience too soonNobody knows. It’s never happened in the history of writing.

Worst case scenario is you build your audience too soon:

You reach out to people, serve them with your words, …

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Time for Writers to Retire

February 26, 2023 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  31 Comments

retire automobileYes. It’s time for writers to retire (cough) a few old favorite but now worn-out words, methods, habits, phrases, and punctuation marks.

“But my high school English teacher told me…”

Is your high school teacher in publishing? Makes a difference.…

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AI and Publishing’s Future

February 12, 2023 //  by Janet Grant//  31 Comments

About a month ago, one of my daughters, who works for an online security company, startled me by the question she posed, “What is publishing doing to prepare for people who use AI to write books?”

I hadn’t paid much …

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Writer Office Gossip

January 15, 2023 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  16 Comments

I remember the day I gave up gossip.

Writer Office Gossip girlsFor me, it was part of my spiritual journey. Every time I saw gossip in a list with murder, adultery, stealing, and other vile practices, I felt smugly “safe” from all the …

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New Year • New Challenge

January 8, 2023 //  by Wendy Lawton//  15 Comments

Did you set a new challenge for the new year? A few months ago, I asked my primary care physician what I could do to remain cognitively sharp as I age,  He’s a young guy and the best doctor I’ve …

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Writing from a Place of Gratitude

November 27, 2022 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  30 Comments

writing from gratitudeWhat if writers stopped writing from a place of inspiration and instead wrote from a place of gratitude?

As we turn the corner from a season marked by words like thanksgiving, thanks, grateful, Books & Such Literary Management doesn’t only …

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Why Writing Authentically Is so Hard

November 20, 2022 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

One aspect of a writer that I look for in a potential client is that she has a sense of who she is and what she should write. Not in a “I love my novel and WILL get it published” …

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Spiritual Warfare and the Ministry of the Christian Writer

November 13, 2022 //  by Debbie Alsdorf//  23 Comments

“What kind of books do you write?” my neighbor asked. I told her a little of what I’ve written, smirking she said,”Oh, you’re a Christian author.”

Afterwards I kept thinking of those two words, Christian author. I remembered  penning words …

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Ready, Set, Send

October 23, 2022 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  13 Comments

It’s not far into childhood before we learn the “Ready, Set, Go!” game. Parents, arms extended, could simply say, “Jump!” and the toddler would happily respond. But even the rhythm and anticipation of “Ready” (not yet), “Set” (not quite), and …

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