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Profiting from Reader Feedback

November 18, 2009 by Maria Keckler  
Filed under Editing and Revision, The Whole Nine Yards

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Last month I worked night after night to finish two sample chapters for a publisher interested in my book proposal. Faithfully, I toiled away—writing, crafting, rewriting, revising, writing, and rewriting some more.

I was done. What I mean is that I had taken the writing as far as I could. I read what I had written—several times—and knew that although the writing was good, something wasn’t right—I just couldn’t put my finger on the problem. I even tried to put on my writing teacher hat: What would you say if you were a student? I had nothing. I decided it was time to send the writing to my faithful group of volunteer readers—a few family members and friends who have agreed to read my work and give me their honest critique.
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With three days to spare, four of them stopped what they were doing to give me their impressions. “Give it to me straight,” I said. They did—generously—and they were right on! Long story short: their fresh perspective restored mine, and I was ready to return to the drawing board to produce a better product. Read more

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The Marriage Code & the Life of a Servant Writer/Speaker Couple

October 3, 2009 by Maria Keckler  
Filed under Author Interviews, The Whole Nine Yards

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Bill and Pam Farrel are best-selling authors and international speakers.  With 30 book to their credit, inlcuding Men Are Like Waffeles and Women Are Like Spagetti, they are still fired up about helping marriages thrive. What I most appreaciate about this Servant Writer/Speaker couple is their passion to help build strong marriages and guide up-and-coming writers whom they mentor.  With a packed writing and international speaking schedule, Bill and Pam still make time to help those of us who share a calling to serve God and others through the power of the written and spoken word.  In this interview, Bill and Pam share about their writing and speaking life and why they are excited about what their new book, The Marriage Code, will do for marriages around the world.

Why do you see yourselves as servant writers?

Writing (and speaking) to serve isn’t glamorous; but we do it to serve God and others. Maybe this true story will illustrate a typical day in the life of a Servant Writer/Speaker Couple: Read more

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