Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Christmas Writing Tips

If you're thinking of writing your own Christmas books, that's awesome! Go for it!

It doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to become a best seller. It can just be for fun, for yourself, and for your friends and family.

And now/soon, you can pick up some useful writing tips at Christmas Writing.com.

The first tip explains the Writing Process and how it SAVES YOU TIME and greatly improves your outcomes.

The second tip which I'm just about to post explains how important Dialog is and how to make it work for you.

More Christmas writing tips will be added as the season continues to approach.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Christmas Writing

Today I spent a little time developing my Christmas Writing.com site with book reviews. As I began assembling books to review there, I realized that I haven't read that many of them. That's okay. I'll begin this year and have a bigger list by next Christmas.

Of course there are some classics like The Grinch who Stole Christmas which belongs in any serious Christmas book collection!

It's a nice season. Books and stories (and music and pumpkin pie) are a great way to get into the swing of things.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Christmas Novels

I've been getting into the Christmas Spirit for two months already.

What? Me?

I know! I usually end up doing my shopping just a few days before the 25th.

So what happened? Did I see three ghosts? Did a novice angel show me what the world would be like if I was never born?

No, nothing like that. I just decided to finish up some awesome Christmas writing again, like I did over a decade ago when I determined to finish Gone but not Forgotten within a month. I finished in three weeks of intense writing.

The problem was that I got really sick of that book after so much intense focus! And even though it was very well received and generated many die hard fans, and many readers told me they couldn't put it down till they finished...

I wasn't satisfied.

But now I am! I did a massive revision of the book, making it even better in several ways - like spelling out clearly the Meaning of Life, improving many characters and the plot, and improving the writing, making it even more vivid and engaging.

The new version is titled Courage, Love and the Meaning of Christmas, which is a much better indicator of what's inside.

Then I also finished up the sequel, The Perfect Gift, which readers have been requesting for years, and I think it's even better than the first. Partly because Ski becomes a major character and I think he's hilarious.

Anyway, you can pick them up at Christmas Novels.com (and other places which I'll announce soon).