by Brad Pauquette | May 31, 2022 | Entrepreneurship, Time Management, Writing Tips
One of the most important questions I ask applicants to our Arche Year Cohorts at the School of Kingdom Writers is “This program takes ten hours per week. What are you going to give up?” Their answer to this question is probably the best indicator of their success in...
by Brad Pauquette | Mar 25, 2022 | School of Kingdom Writers, Writing Tips
Becoming a writer is hard. Statistically, it’s just as difficult as becoming an Olympic athlete or a professional musician. Yet as writers, we tend to believe that that anyone can do it and all it takes is a laptop. Even worse, we believe that we can do it all on our...
by Brad Pauquette | Mar 2, 2022 | Writing Tips
My oldest son wants to be a YouTube star. Not to brag, but he’s good at it. For twelve years old, he blows me away. He takes it seriously. He studies the craft of other YouTubers, reads book about it, and tries new things. What he’s producing is way beyond...
by Brad Pauquette | Aug 4, 2021 | Writing Tips
There are about six words that are ever-present in the real world, but taboo within Christian culture. How do we, as Christian writers, tell good stories about the real world without these six words? Is it OK for Christian writers to include profanity in their...
by Brad Pauquette | Jul 21, 2021 | Writing Tips
I met with an author yesterday to review her developmental edit. Like many first-time authors, she was struggling to make enough bad things happen to her protagonist, especially things that might be perceived as the character’s fault. Understandably, she wants her...
by Brad Pauquette | Oct 15, 2020 | Writing Tips
Over the years I’ve found that writers who can also act often write better dialogue. If you can believably act your dialogue out, you can write it. Writers who sound stilted, awkward, and, for lack of a better word, cringey, when they read dialogue out loud typically...
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