Here are some ideas for guest posts on the CWG Blog:
Writing and Editing Tips: Everything writers need to know in order to write well. Includes both beginner and advanced information.
The Business of Writing: Useful information on working with publishers, writing queries and proposals, self-publishing, and managing the tax and record-keeping end of a writing career.
Writing on the Internet: What writers need to know about blogging, websites, social-networking, and all things electronic.
Useful Links for Writers: Articles, websites, and other resources Catholic writers need to know about.
How to Write about the Catholic Faith: How to share the Catholic faith effectively and appropriately, both in religious and in secular writing.
Illustrating and Graphic Design: Everything Catholic writers, editors, publishers, illustrators, and graphic designers need to know.
Encouraging Young Writers: Tested ideas for teaching writing, and for helping aspiring writers grow in the craft.
Quote Journal: Encouraging quotes about writing or the Catholic faith. Please do your research and include proper attributions. Quote from the original source, not from a quote anthology or popular truism.
Humor: Clean, upbeat, original humorous essays about the writing life or the Catholic faith. Also, reprints of properly-attributed jokes.
Flash Fiction: Clean, Catholic-friendly flash fiction. (Does not need to be overtly Catholic — secular fiction is fine. Does need to be appropriate for all audiences. If you link in your author’s bio to works that treat mature or sensitive topics, please give readers the head’s up. Thanks!)
Poetry: Secular or religious. All poems should fit the mission of the guild, pointing us towards higher things – all that is beautiful, thoughtful, reflective, grateful, sorrowful, humorous – the range of wonder to be found in every part of life.
Excellent Excerpts: Properly-attributed excerpts of 200 words or less that demonstrate excellent writing. (Include additional explanations as needed.) Works excerpted need not be Catholic, but should be consistent with a Catholic worldview.
Art for Writers: Art-appreciation and technical topics about art, writing, and the Catholic faith. Also, properly-attributed images of interest to Catholic writers.
Saints for Writers: Inspiration for writers gleaned from the lives of saints and saints-in-training. Pious legends should be researched using primary sources to confirm the historicity of the legend.
Catechism for Writers: Important information about the teachings and practices of the Catholic Faith that writers need to know.
Book Reviews: This can be reviews of Catholic books, reviews of secular works by Catholic authors, or reviews of books that treat topics related to writing and publishing. If the book includes material that may be objectionable to some readers, please say so in the review.
[Many excellent writing books are valuable resources for the Catholic writer despite containing examples or quotes that are not consistent with a Catholic world view. Parents and teachers, especially, will want to provide guidance in the books they share with younger writers.]
Writer-to-Writer: Your personal experiences as a writer, illustrator, editor, or publisher, shared in a way that provides encouragement and support for others.
Your Idea Here: Being creative isn’t about being outlandish or eye-catching. It means being the person God made you to be. What do you have to share?
Send your ideas to blog AT catholicwritersguild DOT com. We’ll work with you to help you get your submission ready.
