Category: Encouragement for Christians who write fiction for children and teens

Hello again Writer Friends, and welcome to this week’s creative writing tip. Actually, this week it’s more of a bit of encouragement – at least, I hope it will be!

Sometimes we need to say no to requests from other people, so we can . . .

Creative Writing Tip of the Week: Make Yourself a Playlist!

Do you like to listen to music while you’re writing? Why not make a playlist of music you could listen to while working? You might like . . .

Hi again everyone, and welcome to this week’s writing tip: Some of the unsolicited manuscripts we receive at Dernier Publishing are full of exciting adventures, but some are really bland. …

Apologies for a very late writing tip this week – I have been away to Ireland, visiting my brother, who moved to Co. Mayo last year (and it was my first time on Irish soil – what a beautiful land!).

Ireland

Anyway, here’s a question for you – something to think about over the weekend, maybe?

What would you like to have achieved by …

Hello again everyone, and thanks for being here. I do enjoy writing these tips, and they help me, too! Before I was a publisher I was a writer, and I still like to keep my hand in, so all the things I write here I try to put into practice myself. 🙂

The first thing I ever wrote (apart from school work) were letters. As children we were obliged to write thank you letters to relatives who sent us birthday and Christmas presents – then when I was eighteen I moved to . . .

Obstacles are an inevitable part of life. Like the family in the story “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt” (by Michael Rosen), we can’t go over them, we can’t go under them, we can’t go round them: we have to go through them! And obstacles show up in every arena, whether it’s in our work life, relationships, finances . . . or our writing . . .

You do not have to be published by a traditional publisher to be successful. This might sound negative, but it’s not!

Consider this: what is your reason for writing? Is it so you can see your book in print, with your name on the cover, or is it to . . .

Life isn’t always easy – it’s full of ups and downs. There are exhilarating mountain peak experiences, and tough times in the valleys. This came in force to me recently, as the day after we returned from a wonderful holiday in the mountains, our little cat . . .