Posts tagged James Watkins
Merry Christmas Link Roundup
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Rather than talk about writing and marketing this week, I’ll share one of my Christmas meditations, A Christmas Gift for Everyone.
In addition, I’d like to share Christmas articles by some of my favorite Christian writers.
Lawrence Wilson’s “How I Discovered the Joy of Giving”
“The Making of a Christmas Tradition” by Virginia Smith
A Message from Cecil Murphey, Author of “Christmas Miracles”
Be inspired to celebrate Christmas and to write about your experiences.
Support Your Fellow Writers This Christmas
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About this time each year, magazines and blogs publish gift lists to help us with our Christmas shopping. Here are a few examples I found by googling. First, there’s Christmas Gift Ideas for Writers followed by Christmas Gifts for Writers,
Great suggestions. But, I recommend that we make a concentrated effort to give books this year. Give them to everyone on your gift list. If you have a wish list for yourself, fill it with books! What better way to promote writers and writing than to buy books as gifts?
You’ll have fun selecting a special book for each person on your list. Don’t limit yourself to the best-seller lists, either. Check out these great offerings by our writer comrades.
- Jim Watkins, books dispensing hope and humor
- Virginia Smith, great mystery-suspense, women’s fiction
- More fiction by Ann H. Gabhart.
- 52 Hymn Story Devotions by Lucy Neely Adams
- Devotional books by Diane Neal Matthews
- Take a look at my book review blog for other ideas.
I welcome additions to this list from my readers. To suggest books, just comment on this post. Be sure to include a link to the author’s site or to a listing of the author’s work on Amazon.
Communicate to Change Lives by James Watkins
0Full title is Communicate to Change Lives in Person and in Print by James N. (Jim Watkins). I recommend this book to Christian writers, beginners and published writers alike. It’s like a writer’s workshop and a motivational speech in one volume. Watkins covers all the basics of good communication whether written or spoken. He educates, but he also entertains with his own special brand of humor. I highly recommend it to all who would communicate more effectively. In fact, if you are a Christian writer and if you only buy one book this year, buy this one.
The book is available through Wesleyan Publishing House.
Watkins is a popular speaker at writers conferences. He’s also an editor, a writer, and an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church. Oh, I forgot he’s also a threat to society, according to his Web site.
What Is a Wired Writer?
0I thought a “wired writer” was a writer who was well-connected…to the Internet, I mean. It’s a writer who has e-mail and knows how to use it, who also knows his/her way around the Web. Maybe it could also refer to writers who are so out of practice journaling by hand that they can no longer read their own writing. I suppose it could refer to a writer whose “posterior” is wired to their office chair.
I first encountered the term on the Web site of Jim Watkins, popular writers’ conference speaker, writer, editor, humorist, and threat to society (his words). Jim is wired to the hilt, because his Web site/blog contains a wealth of information on writing and using the Internet to enhance the same.
It comes as no surprise that a genuine wired writer spends a lot of time on the computer. Now, I find out that there’s a condition known as Wired Writer’s Syndrome. See Absolute Write Web site for a complete definition. I think I may be showing symptoms.
According to Absolute Write, a wired writer is well on his/her way to publishing success. If you aren’t wired to write, it’s time to remedy that. Whether you write for personal reasons or for publication, you’ll be able to organize and disseminate your writing better if you’re wired.
