I have the honor of presenting you with an exclusive interview I recently conducted with the one and only, Jerry B. Jenkins. With 21 New York Times bestsellers (seven debuting at #1), 186 books, and over 70 million copies sold, he is one of the most commercially successful writers of our time.
In the interview Jenkins opens up about self-doubt, failure, success, and why he so generously passes on what he’s learned about the craft.
Note: This is a guest post by Melissa Chu, she helps writers get productive and develop good work habits at JumpstartYourDreamLife.com. If you want to start getting more done and reaching your writing goals – grab her guide on goal setting and productivity.
Do you feel like you’ve gotten into a rut with writing? You find yourself trying to put down words, but your mind just draws a blank. The ideas just don’t seem to flow anymore. Your mind feels like a dry well, absent of inspiration.
I’d like your help with choosing the best Writing blogs for 2016. Are you up for the challenge?
The annual blog awards here on Positive Writer is a pretty big deal, as the previous award announcements have been viewed over a million times to date and have received thousands of shares on social networks. It’s great exposure to say the least, but just as importantly it introduces countless readers to blogs they might not have found otherwise.
So make sure your favorite is included in this year’s announcement. Find out how…
The right time.
You’ve waited for it. And if we’re honest, we’ve all waited for it. Perhaps it will happen this coming new year!
Some never stop waiting for the right time: To write a book. To query an agent. To start a blog. To call themselves a writer.
You’re sitting at your desk, thinking. At least, you want to be. But you’re not. Not, really.
You want to be thinking of something utterly amazing, something so brilliant the letters will burn themselves onto the page.
The words, the sentences, the paragraphs, the pages, and finally, the book– it will dazzle everyone who reads it…
Are you ready to wield the Force as a Jedi blogger?
Learn first the 13 secrets revealed in this post you must to awaken the blogging within you.
So you’re a writer (or a painter, a singer, or an artist of any kind) and you want celebrities such as, Jerry B. Jenkins and Warren Adler, and perhaps you want to throw a mega blogger into the mix, like, say, Mr. Badass himself, Jeff Goins, all to endorse your work. So how do you do that?
This is a guest post by Shayla Eaton. Shayla is the president of Curiouser Editing and a connoisseur of the writing and editing process, having edited over two hundred books and countless articles, blogs, social media posts, and web copy. She is the author of The Curiouser Crusade and the Pre-Publishing Checklist.
Choosing to self-publish your book means you’re in control of the process. But like Ben Parker said to Spider-Man: “With great self-publishing comes great responsibility.” Or, you know, something like that.
This post is for serious writers looking to seriously self-publish their work.
In a very real way, I’m embarrassed to post this, but in another way—it needs to be done!
I recently had One Single Post bring in over a t h o u s a n d new subscribers and it reached tens of thousands of readers. I was stunned, shocked, and, you guessed it, astonished (all of the usual superlatives)! But looking back it’s not as surprising as it might seem, so today I’m going to reveal how I did it and how you can do it, too.
You want to know the funny thing about creating such a post? You don’t have to be a great writer to create one and any blogger can do it.
