Two Easy Ways to Build Your Writing Career in 2021
Are you a writer who’s ready to build your writing career in 2021? Here are two ways that have helped award-winning author Christopher P.N. Maselli the most.
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Time to Refocus
As you know from previous posts, I have a heart condition. A serious one. And sometimes it’s tempting to give in to it, to pamper myself, to let it limit my experiences and my enjoyment of life. But I don’t. I want to live to the fullest, to enjoy all God has for me. I…
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Breakthrough
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been working on battling the spirit of fear in my life. Besides the physical feeling of fear, I’ve also dealt with rebuking and replacing the negative voices in my head. The ones that kept me trapped and paralyzed about changing. I had to replace unhealthy messages with the…
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What Would You Have Me Do?
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C. S. Lewis As Al Borland used to say on the first Tim Allen show, Home Improvement, “I don’t think so, Tim.” Usually, when Tim was about to blow something up that shouldn’t blow up. But I digress. Many times, I’ve…
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How to Write What You Want
You’ll hear a lot of good advice at writer’s conferences. One of those pieces of advice is that to be a professional writer, you need to be sure to write what is marketable. Write what publishing houses are looking for. Write what agents want to represent. Write what readers crave. If you heed this advice,…
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BE a Writer
I really enjoy the book of Proverbs. Those short, succinct phrases speak clearly about every area of life. As I’ve grown older, I come to value their wisdom and guidance even more. Some, I’ve found, speak clearly to writing. One in particular is Proverbs [14:23] NLT. Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!…
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It’s All About Trust
The first time I heard Larry Parman, an attorney specializing in estate planning speak at a conference, I knew I would use him. Even though he asked questions that made me squirm. “If something were to happen to you, could your children afford to bury you?” “Ummm…well…the truth is that they couldn’t even afford to…
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What Would You Attempt if You Knew You Could Not Fail?
My 10-year-old granddaughter Haiden spent the weekend with me not long ago. She had disobeyed her mother. It wasn’t a small thing. While the rest of her family and the next door neighbor’s family left for a planned trip to the lake to swim and ride jet skis, Haiden had been dropped off at my…
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Reading: The Creative Center of a Writer’s Life
Above is a concept that Stephen King discussed in his excellent book On Writing, and it’s true as true can be. So in this blog, we’re going to look at the importance of writers reading. Reading novels is often a more effective method of learning to write than any college course you might take. Of…
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The Blessings of Being a Writer
Yes, dear writer, hard as it is to believe sometimes, there are blessings to being a writer. And they go beyond multi-book deals, beyond making the bestseller list, beyond movie deals. Few writers attain these lofty heights. But all authors can experience the blessings of being a writer. As I’ve grown older, I’ve learned more…