Every writer’s desk should have a dictionary-thesaurus, a style guide, and a book of quotations. When I started writing for publication, I was told that I needed one dictionary and style guide for book publishing and a different set for newspaper style. OK, that’s four books already. The writer’s desk gets cluttered in a hurry [...]
Subtitle: How to Accomplish All that God Wants You to Do. Because this book was published in 1988, many people would pass it by. But, don’t do that! You’ll miss a wonderful study of time management from the Christian perspective Also, if you came to this blog because you are a writer looking for resources [...]
Subtitle: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. Zinser’s book is a classic. In fact, it is recommended almost as much as Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, and that’s a high compliment. Mine is the 1996 edition, but the thirtieth anniversary edition, published in 2006, is on Google Books, where you can sample portions of [...]
Subtitle is A Guide to Journal Keeping for Inner Growth and Personal Discovery. This is my favorite book on journaling, because it takes the spiritual factor into account. Besides the content you’d expect on journaling how-to and why-to, there’s a guide for using the book in small group study and a reading list for additional [...]
Marlene Bagnull manages two Christian writers conferences each year, runs Write His Answer Ministries, and offers at-home writing workshops. She has mentored numerous writers over the years, but this book is probably her greatest service to the writing community. Write His Answer is a Bible study for Christian Writers in a workbook format that allows [...]