Writing Tips

On my Writing Tips Blog I offer writing tips and encouragement as we journey together in our writing ministry. (I blogged previously at Next Step Coaching Services with Amy Carroll.)

I love to partner with writers of all abilities to help make their dreams come true! Find more about this and under the Writing Coaching section of my website.

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  • writing tips on punctuation and grammar
  • teaching about organizing and developing your manuscript, no matter what size
  • encouragement for the tough days, when you’re doubting your ability and calling
  • guidelines for how to use Scripture in your writing 
Latest Writing Tips
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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Does this sentence need a comma?

You want a “clean,” error-free manuscript. And one step towards that is to check your punctuation. Today let’s learn a few rules about commas. Places you need a comma: After a short prepositional phrase at beginning of sentence So what’s a prepositional phrase? It’s a phrase that begins with a preposition, and a preposition is…
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How Do Key Words Create Focus?

We learned in my last blog post one of the qualities of good, nonfiction Christian writing is focus. Focus is accomplished when our book title, subtitle, chapter titles, and chapter summaries are aimed toward one main point, like arrows flying toward a bullseye on a target. Another way to create focus in your writing is…
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What’s Your Heart’s Desire?

Hi friends, So many of you are my followers through my Melanie S. Chitwood Writing Tips Blog. Some of you are followers of My Doing the Best I Can Blog. Thank you for following and welcome! Today’s message will be for both of groups. So it’s the new year, when we’re supposed to make new…
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