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by Word Alive Press
On Wednesday, I talked about the print materials I included with the press kit for the first book in my current series. If you want to make an inde...
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by Word Alive Press
Marketing doesn’t come easily or naturally to me. It surprises me that there are any writers out there who enjoy hawking their books. I accept th...
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by Word Alive Press
One of the most basic and important skills in writing fiction—and also in non-fiction, though to a slightly lesser degree—is mastering the use of...
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by Word Alive Press
As an editor, one of the things I find authors struggle with the most is point of view. It seems to me that a lot of people sit down to write hav...
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by Word Alive Press
Progress rarely happens in a straight line. It isn’t steady. It isn’t stable. Rather, it happens in fits and starts. For example, when you’re try...
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by Word Alive Press
Originally published on The Fictorians blogFor most of my life, I have been striving to become a writer. One day, I thought, I will be a writer. ...
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by Word Alive Press
Before I began editing professionally, it never occurred to me that the use of contractions in literature would be contentious on any level. In fac...
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by Word Alive Press
At Word Alive Press we know how valuable feedback can be to writers, and this week our blog will be focusing on how to receive—and give—feedback on...
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by Word Alive Press
One of the most common issues unique to Christian authors is learning how to properly deal with quotations from the Bible. Just about every non-fic...
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