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Fun Fridays – July 24, 2026
Sometimes we must simply acknowledge the skill of others who can do what we cannot.
The first 45 seconds of today’s video is a metaphor for what your manuscript will look like after a great editor slices and dices it into something unique and exciting.
Of course, it could be just a potato being chopped up. But I prefer the word picture.
Enjoy the skill of this chef!
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Leave a CommentThree Tough Questions
I pondered whether to make today’s post a series, but my nature to be more encouraging than discouraging took over. So, I decided to make this a single “rip off the Band-Aid” message so you can get the bad taste out of your mouth and enjoy tomorrow’s “Fun Friday” post from Steve Laube! Question #1: What if your focus on one particular book idea getting published is the very thing holding you back from ever being published? Often aspiring writers have a concept for a book and, despite all efforts, cannot seem to interest others in publishing it or buying …
You Have the Right to Write Rite. Right?
[Read the following, out loud, really fast. Should help you wake up!] by Anonymous When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write, if the copy is right. If however, your copy falls over, you must right your copy. If you write religious services you write rite, and have the right to copyright the rite you write. Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right to copyright the right copy they write. A right wing cleric would write right rite, and has the right to copyright the right rite he has the right …
Fun Fridays – July 17, 2026
Can’t go too long without showing you more barbershop quartet brilliance. Enjoy this one about nursery rhymes from The Newfangled Four! (If you cannot see the video in your email newsletter feed, click through to our website where you can enjoy it.) ShareTweet
Remind Me (A Writer’s Prayer)
Lord, remind me when inspiration fails me and writing is a slog, that even at such times the writing life is a life of privilege and blessing. Remind me when I feel overwhelmed with work of the “dry spells” I’ve endured when paying jobs were few. Remind me when I am tempted to do less than my best to make every word, sentence, paragraph, and page a holy offering to you. Remind me when I feel like goofing off online that I used to hope for the joy and honor of being a writer. Remind me when the bank account …