Writing Tips

How to Hook Your Reader with a Compelling Introduction

How to Hook Your Reader with a Compelling Introduction

Introductions and Conclusions are two places I often find need improvment in a manuscript. This post will be about Introductions and my next post will be about Conclusions. I’ll give you some guidelines for writing an Introduction, and these can work for devotion writing, blog posts, and chapters in nonfiction God-help (prescriptive) books. The introductory…

Do You Capitalize This?

Do You Capitalize This?

Today’s blog post will give you some tips for capitalizing words we commonly use in Christian writing. This is the guide that I use for my personal writing and when I’m editing for clients. Remember, however, there are different style guides that require various capitalization rules. (You can find an explanation of style guides here.)…

Where Do I Put the Comma?

Where Do I Put the Comma?

After writing a blog post last month about commas, I discovered many of you get as excited about punctuation rules as I do! It’s so important for professionalism to have a completely error-free, or “clean,” manuscript, and that includes making sure your punctuation is correct. So let’s look at some more comma rules. The serial…

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