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Tips for Improving Your Instagram Profile and Posts for Maximum Engagement
“Posting often, especially stories, reels, and videos, helps you get discovered more easily. However, posting consistently is more important” Sally Meadows
Secrets in Poetry
Poems, like stories, are wonderful vehicles for telling secrets. Not only can poems be about secrets (like the poem above) but they are a potent way to share your experiences and ideas in subtle yet powerful ways.
Secrets in Prose
How would you go about using the power of a secret in a story or play? Here are some elements to consider. by Violet Nesdoly
Writer Refresh – August
Eleanor Bertin’s quotes below are from her blog posts on the InScribe Professional Blog on April 7th and 28th, 2025. They are a reminder of how to build a scene. Two questions follow the quotes for your perusal. Keep in mind that these scene building techniques can apply to nonfiction writing as well! “Begin with… Read more »
Writer Refresh
I’ve enjoyed the authors contributions so far on our Pro-Blog 2025, and I look forward to hearing from more over the next few months. They provided such professional and timely content that I’d like to do a refresh once in awhile. Therefore, I will share some quotes from their past writing for your engagement. Below… Read more »
CREATING CHARACTER GOALS 2
What helps me keep to the basic direction and character goals of my short story is to write out a very condensed blurb that often ends up introducing the story once published.
CREATING CHARACTER GOALS 1
“I stand by my decision to write literature that comes out of a message bubbling up in my soul.” Deb Elkink
Writing from a Christian Worldview
However you choose to convey their faith, it must be woven into the thread of the story,
My Thoughts on Character Building
By Donna Gartshore To start with, I personally don’t use a lot of how-to books. In no way is this intended as a critique to those that do. They just never work that well for me. I believe that our true inspiration comes from God. He’s given all of us the power to… Read more »
Making a Scene: What About the Details?
“To offer readers “a break” from rising tension, you can alternate scenes of action with quieter scenes” Eleanor Bertin by Eleanor Bertin Imagine reading about one of your most ordinary days. “The sixty-four-year-old woman cast aside the rumpled sheet and fray-edged polyester blanket, swung her legs out of bed, stuffed her feet into sloppy leather… Read more »