Corissa Maiden of Praise

@daeus

Thanks. Finding what matters to him. hmm…

@radically-surrendered

Awesome!!

I was planning on articles, but have found out he thinks they are awful… so we’ll see how a few go over.

I think he’ll grasp it quickly… *if* he cares like you said.

@aella Yeah, definitely speak in his terms. Don’t try to make him a writer or treat him like a writer, because that’s probably not where his focus should be. He won’t understand the way you think, so you have to understand the way he thinks which is. It doesn’t matter what you value about writing, find what he values and show him whatever ways…[Read more]

@anne-of-lothlorien @mariposa Actually, statistics show that people are far more likely to read an email that has just text. People say they like pictures, but when it actually comes down to it, they distrust emails with pictures in them. Of course, it depends on your niche, but I think it’s most likely your audience will pay more attention to you…[Read more]

@that_writing_girl_99

Pretty much, unless it’s math, the kid zones out.

Aaah, yes, I use the word kid loosely. He’s fifteen.

Pretty much where he is seeing chaos, I’m having trouble explaining how, there can be, if he uses it, order.

I don’t really understand either. I believe they want me to kind of… coach him through writing the novella?…[Read more]

@Aella yikes… I do not envy you. 😛

Well… oh boy. If this was my task, I’d probably take a mathematical approach, since communication is all about presenting the material in the way your audience is already used to thinking.

First, I would explain the purpose of fiction— how it’s use is to touch people on the heart and make them think…[Read more]

@waterlily I would!

@jenwriter Sorry I didn’t see this before! Yeah, I think it would be awesome, even though it’s been done before, with the whole mark of the beast thing. I love the idea.

@dragon-snapper What they said 😉

Quick tip: Make a goal list. Doing as many of these as you can is a fabulous goal, but don’t try and do them all at once. Pick your top three priorities (say like, email list, submitting a short story to a site and joining a new writing community) Focus on getting those three goals established/done before adding…[Read more]

Oops. @mariposa.

And I will say that you should try to make the emails visually attractive. Put color in, with photos, maybe a logo for your blog, artwork, etc. Everyone likes to read something more than a page of black lines.

@mariposa-aristeo

I’m usually attracted to an email list if I know the person and have previously read some of their work. I only have about half a dozen people I signed up for an email from. A few are friends of church that have small designing businesses, and the others are writers.

What you want to write about depends on what you’re trying to…[Read more]

@inkling-for-christ

This is an awesome idea! For some reason it seems like breaking-cliche for the writers to be the ones that are shunned and looked down on.

Sam has a point about how we technically could call dreaming irrational, since ration is logic, and dreaming is most usually not logic. But I defend dreaming with everything I’ve got.…[Read more]

@seekjustice All I can think of is a electronic zapping gun. I’m not into futuristic stuff…

@jenwriter17 I definitely think it could be done. If you’re writing in first person, I wouldn’t recommend it. But in third person, I think it would totally work! 🙂