Are you a Marketing Expert, a PR Specialist, a Social Media whiz? You don’t have to be any kind of expert to help your fellow writers who blog. The greatest thing you can do is just hit the share buttons on these posts and let a few people know about […]
Need More Space?
As I prayed the Divine Office, I realized I was missing something important. When I pray alone, I tend to forget the call-and-response rhythm of the psalms. A more conscious effort to place the pause within each couplet, instead of between couplets restores the sense that I am praying with […]
Freely Receive, Freely Act
Your fellow Guild Members are calling you to action!! This is what these posts have in common, and it’s also what Catholic writers have in common. We are making demands, in a way, upon our readers. That may be why we don’t have so many readers! It also may be […]
Say That Again, Please
Writers should be speakers, and vice versa. Speakers (at least, those without speech writers) should first develop their ideas in clear, concise, written prose, before foisting them upon captive audiences. This seems obvious. But it may not be so obvious to writers that they should also be speakers. In fact, […]
Round It Up and Read It All
Kassie Ritman, I love Mrs. Goodwin, and I love you for sharing this hilarious mess up of yours! Nancy Ward, I really resonated with your insights about layering on love…thank you. Michael Seagriff – great suggestion for a writing exercise…most telling is the way this pulled such depths of writing […]
Welcome to My World
I’ve just finished my annual, in-home, writing retreat, and highly recommend the experience to all writers! While writing does happen, much else occurs that is very important to my creative process. Here are a few insights from this year’s retreat: It takes time to shift gears from having a whole […]
Here’s Looking at You(r Blogs)
Want to be a better blogger? Study the blogs of others for layout, content, and style tips. Read the blogs of your fellow members to develop a network of mutual interest and support. Promote your blog by including your favorite monthly post in our first-Wednesday collection. I look up to […]
8 High Tech, Low Tech Healthy Writer Tips
Here’s a few tips for writers spending way too many hours at the computer: 1. I got an interval timer and set it to goose me every 40 minutes, at which point I MUST get up and move, shake, stretch, and otherwise un-vegitate until it rings again 2 minutes later. […]
Two Posts, Two Proposals, One Plea
TWO POSTS Hey kids, are we all on summer recess from blogging?? Two Guild Members continue to post like troopers, so please go check out their favorite June articles: Larry Peterson takes up the sword of the word against the monster of meism. Preach it, brother! Nancy Ward‘s story will […]
5 Ways to Improve Communications
Communications should be a huge concern for Catholic writers, but we’re caught in some of the same techno-traps as everyone else. The difference? WE are supposed to help the Body of Christ articulate problems so as to facilitate the process of finding solutions! Here are 5 ways I’ve improved my […]