My Blog Posts About Writing / Editing / Reading

             From the national ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) National Blog:

•                        Character Description
•                        What Is the Message?

From the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Indiana Chapter Blog, Hoosier Ink:

• Crazy Editor Interference—It Can Be Worse Than You Thought
  
• Why Book Acknowledgments Matter
• In a Word, Anachronistic 
  
• Word Counts Gone Wild
  
• What Is Your Gold Standard?
  
• Dear Author: Mistakes Are Okay
  
• The Mind of a Line Editor
• 6 Fun Ways to Keep Your Storytelling Juices Going on Vacation 
  
• Beware the Cultural Reference 
  
• A Kiss, an Arrow, and a Past Too Perfect 
  
• Author's Voice? Or Character's Voice?
  
• 7 Quick and Easy Ways to Clean Up Your Manuscript
  
• Slay Belles Wring
  
• The Description Challenge
  
• Once Upon a Time There Was Expletive Construction
  
• They Had Me at “Jane Eyre”—To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters · 
  
• The Writing Bug
  
• Scary Words in Social Media Waters
  
• 5 Ways Authors Can Enhance Author/Editor Collaboration
  
• 5 Ways Editors Can Enhance Editor/Author Collaboration
  
• Bursts of Inspiration
• Listen for What You Want the Reader to Hear
• Telling a Story Within a Story

 

                From The Glorious Table, a community blog for women:

•                         The Heart of a Writer

About Reading:

To be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification. -  Robert Gottlieb

• Value in Fiction Not Labeled Christian (about the Bellingwood Series)
• A Recommendation for Alien Authors from Mars (about Anne of Green Gables)
• Why I Do (and Don't) Recommend Christian Fiction
• To Read or Not to Read: 3 Elements That Could Help You Decide
• Literature-Induced Poundage: It's Not All Your Fault
• Found and Lost: The Secret Life of a Free-Book Addict

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