The "beat sheet" is one of the most useful editorial tools that an author can develop. Based on his bestselling book, "Writing Treatments that Sell," Dr. Ken Atchity explains one-page beat sheets and how they differ from synopses, writing treatments...

Learning how to write through reading, writer's conferences, and classes is vitally important before hiring an editor. Sometimes an editor can help you learn to write, but it's a relatively expensive way to learn. In this video, author Kathy Ide goes...

Learning how to write through reading, writer's conferences, and classes is vitally important before hiring an editor. Sometimes an editor can help you learn to write, but it's a relatively expensive way to learn. In this podcast, author Kathy Ide...

Author, editor, and speaker Sharon Norris Elliott launched her business, AuthorizeMe, to help her fellow Christian authors flesh out their book ideas. Originally, she started with a 12-hour, 2-day seminar that guides authors on how to write a book proposal...

Author, Laura Labovich, shares how working for the Disney company changed her expectations of how to please a customer. “Disney gave me permission to be myself,” says Labovich. It was Disney that taught her to use her own personality and bubbliness...

Writer Craig Faustus Buck talks discipline, which he is very familiar with after having written six non-fiction books, including co-authoring the #1 New York Times bestseller for Toxic Parents. He has also written hundreds of articles for magazines and...

Writer Craig Faustus Buck talks discipline, which he is very familiar with after having written six non-fiction books, including co-authoring the #1 New York Times bestseller for Toxic Parents. He has also written hundreds of articles for magazines and...

Author, Laura Labovich, shares how working for the Disney company changed her expectations of how to please a customer. “Disney gave me permission to be myself,” says Labovich. It was Disney that taught her to use her own personality and bubbliness...

There are two main ways author, writer, and producer Joel Eisenberg suggests writers can connect with entertainment executives. The first is to reach out and connect with as many people as possible. Conferences, writing groups, networking events, book...

It’s impossible to write without being influenced in some way by your life experiences, whether intentionally or not. But, it’s up to you, the writer, to mine value from these experiences rather than to be blindly led by them. A writer who has grown...