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For Christians new to writing novels for kids and teens. Creative writing tips, encouragement and inspiration from Janet Wilson, writer, speaker, and publisher of Christian fiction for young people. Get ready to take your writing to the next level! You can do it - all you need is a bit of help. Don't miss out!
Janet hosts Write for a Reason, a religion show with 70 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail There are many elements we need to get right with our stories, but there are some basic essentials that will make or break our novels. I hope this podcast will help you make sure you have at least these
Send us Fan Mail Tight Sentences As in every area of art, writing tight sentences is not an exact science, but I hope some pointers in the right direction might help you with your work in progress. The aim of writing tig
Send us Fan Mail Some surprises in stories can be good - some can be bad. Listen in and get some tips for your own novel, to make sure you are thrilling your readers with some great surprises! Support the show Like to do
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Write for a Reason podcast. My name is Janet Wilson; I'm a publisher of Christian fiction for young people with Dernier Publishing. If you are a Christian, and new to writing stories for k
Send us Fan Mail Some writers are great at dialogue - others find it more challenging. Here are some tips to help you write dialogue that will move your story forward, help your readers to get to know your characters bet
Send us Fan Mail The setting of our story is important! Janet Wilson of Dernier Publishing (Christian fiction for kids and teens) discusses the importance of choosing a compelling setting to enhance your story, and how i
Send us Fan Mail Getting descriptions right can be tricky. Janet Wilson of Dernier Publishing gives 7 tips to help you write great descriptions for your stories. Support the show Like to do my free writing course, Grippi
Send us Fan Mail Do you need an antagonist in your story? Not necessarily! Listen to this podcast episode to find some other ways of introducing conflict into your stories. Support the show Like to do my free writing cou
Send us Fan Mail In one of our recent Writers for a Reason Unite groups, one of the things we talked about was weaving a message into our stories. How do we do this gently, with respect? After all, we are not here to per
Send us Fan Mail We usually start of with a good idea of what our characters look like. But what about other parts of their personality? Here's a writing exercise for you to do, that will help you get to know your charac
Send us Fan Mail With your theme and message in mind, how will your protagonist, and any other characters, change during the course of your story? How will they be different at the end, than they were at the beginning? H
Send us Fan Mail Keeping up the pace in our stories is essential, if we want to hold our readers' attention. This is even more true today than it was a few years ago! So how can we do this? Here are some fun creative wri
Send us Fan Mail This may sound like a daft question, but knowing who you want to write for, and why, is an important foundation for our writing. We can have what we think is a brilliant idea for a story, but will it res
Send us Fan Mail Today I have a little tip for you, on writing dialogue. Someone was asking me recently about what mistakes I see most often in dialogue, and one of them is that their characters all sound too similar. Th
Send us Fan Mail We are leaving a legacy with our writing, whether we are thinking about it or not. So why not be intentional? Listen to this episode and be inspired to change lives with your stories. Support the show Li
Send us Fan Mail We may avoid conflicts in real life, but in our stories we should embrace them as our best friends, because without conflicts we do not have a story! In this pocast episode we get deeper into conflicts,
Send us Fan Mail Hi, Janet Wilson here. The issue with writing fantasy, and how we deal with it as Christians, came up in one of our Writers for a Reason Unite meetings recently. One of our members had been reading a chi
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Janet looks at the whole subject of inspiration. Sometimes we have to go out looking for inspiration... it doesn't always come when we want it... here's how, and why. Enjoy! Support the
Send us Fan Mail What writing times work best for you? How often should you write? The advice write every day is excellent advice! But not for everyone can stick to that, and it can be counter-productive to attempt somet
Send us Fan Mail Asking who you want to write for and why may sound like a really daft question, but when you think about it, it's absolutely foundational to writing a successful story. Listen to this episode and see if
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