Take two breaths. I’m going to show you where one of them comes from. It all starts (and ends) with phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are single-cell organisms that float throughout our planet’s oceans. Billions of them. And they have a nemesis: viruses. Here’s what happens. Viruses try to batter their way through the outer shells of the […]
The best writing is naked writing—vulnerable writing, writing that draws from your own experience, directly or indirectly. Any other kind of writing is phony, and readers can smell it a mile away. Would you trust a yoga instructor who told you what to do without doing it herself? Would you trust a carpenter who never […]
Steven Pressfield, author of the powerful kick-in-your-pants The War of Art, believes in two powerful voices in the world: A negative, dark voice that will stop at nothing to keep you from doing the things you believe are most worth doing. Pressfield calls this the Resistance. This voice is absolutely real. It is deadly. And […]
Several weeks back I attended the International Christian Retail Show, which is the main annual event for Christian booksellers and related vendors. I’ve attended this show the past several years because it’s a good place to meet with industry friends, authors, and literary agents. One afternoon my editorial colleagues and I sat around a table […]
In 1977 NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Their primary mission was to collect data in interstellar space, but they had enough power to continue on to the end of our solar system. Now, 35 years later, they appear to be getting very close. When they escape, it will be the first […]
I’ve been helping authors write for nearly fifteen years, and I have found one idea in particular has helped them to take their writing to the next level. It’s not original to me; it comes from Sol Stein and his book Stein on Writing, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to write well. […]
