Persistence
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It’s an unfortunate truth—if there are writing contests, there will be people who do not win them and most of the time those people will be you and me. So know going into it that, when it comes to writing contests, the odds are against you winning. Does that mean you shouldn’t enter? Not at
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With the American Christian Fiction Writers conference just around the corner, I am reminded of The Wizard of Oz. Like almost every child who grew up in the 1960s and 70s, I never missed the opportunity to watch that movie on TV. It was shown annually for almost three decades. As a result, the movie
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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist. –Isaac Asimov,
Writing On The Fine Line 