Writing Well
Want to reach your fiction writing potential? Try our free quizzes to see if your story’s ready for publication!
Then get more insights and advice to hit your writing goals. Tap the cover of How to Write Fiction and learn more. For classes with editors, see the list below!
Every great story needs a protagonist! Ready to develop yours? Click on the quiz, download it, take it, and find out more about your protagonist!
Take this quiz to learn more about revising with content, craft, communication, and creativity. Click to download!
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Courses Offered
Click on the course title to read more about it. Courses can be one, two, three, or four hours. They often include YouTube videos, worksheets, a lecture, and Q&A time. Teachers are current or former editors of Christian publishing houses with a minimum of six years of experience in the Christian publishing industry. These classes are NOT college accredited or associated with any other program or organization. Instead, they give you hands-on insights into what is actually happening in the industry today and help move your manuscript toward publication.
Taking Your Manuscript to the Next Level
Revise your fiction using the 4Cs (content, craft, communication, and creativity). This course is taught online.
• 1 hour + up to 30 minutes for questions
• $35
• March 28 (3 pm Eastern, 2 pm Central, 1 pm Mountain, 12 pm Pacific)
• This class is now FULL; please sign up to be put on a waiting list. To sign up, email me at simple literature (making the two words one word on either side of an @ sign) and put .com at the end of it.
Make a DIY Subscription Box Kit as a Group
Are you interested in having your group of up to 30 people make a DIY subscription box together?
• time varies by kit and according to your retreat’s timing or your group’s meeting time.
• Ongoing; this is an in-person event
• Costs vary depending on group size and location.
• Times are available for summer 2026. To talk about your group’s needs, email me at simple literature (making those two words one word on either side of an @ sign) and put .com at the end of it.
FAQ
Click on the question to read the answer for each.
Do I have what it takes to be a writer?
The romantic idea that writers are born and not apprenticed is invalid. No matter the talent, every writer must begin, persevere, and make choices. Do you have what it takes to be a writer? That answer is up to you.
What is writers block?
Writer’s block is based on fear. When writers focus on their fears, they become blocked, unable to force words onto a page. The questions in which writing fears are rooted do not have easy or immediate answers. Doubts about ability, direction, and self-esteem do not disappear, but these uncertainties do not have to keep people from working.
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