How Do You Know When Your Manuscript Is Ready?
Published: Fri, 02/23/24
POWER WRITERS REPORT Elsa Has A Message For Many Of You Writers Starting a book is relatively easy. You just write whatever comes to mind. Stream of…
Michael Klassen
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How You Can Still Hit Your Writing Goals in 2024
Published: Fri, 02/16/24
POWER WRITERS REPORT Does Your Gym Look Like This Seven Weeks Into 2024? Here’s a Good News/Bad News flash: We’re already seven weeks into 2024. We’ve…
Your Last Chance for Fresh Ideas on a Stale Subject
Published: Mon, 02/12/24
POWER WRITERS REPORT Can You Smell It? Everybody loves fresh. Fresh bread... Fresh flowers... Fresh ideas... Most of the ideas that bounce around…
Six Ideas to Help You Beat the Platform-Building Blues
Published: Mon, 02/05/24
POWER WRITERS REPORT I Wanna Be Like Mark “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it,” Mark Twain once said. That’s pretty…
You Need to Surround Yourself With THESE People
Published: Mon, 01/29/24
POWER WRITERS REPORT Never Be the Smartest Person in the Room! At the end of today’s post, I’m going to make an e citing announcement—so please hang…
The Biggest Obstacle to Your Next Bestseller
Published: Sat, 01/06/24
POWER WRITERS REPORT Do You Need Help? “Come with me,” my wife Kelley ordered told me last weekend. “Can I finish reading this chapter?” I asked. “No.
Songwriting Secrets Authors Need to Know Part 2
Published: Sat, 12/16/23
POWER WRITERS REPORT Why This Is My Favorite Christmas Album Transcendent books change the world. Transcendent songs change the world. And…
Songwriting Secrets Authors Need to Know Part 1
Published: Fri, 12/08/23
POWER WRITERS REPORT What Do You Want For Christmas??? She was only 25 years old when she co-wrote the iconic Christmas hit. No, I’m not talking about…
How to Get Your Manuscript Unstuck
Published: Thu, 11/16/23
POWER WRITERS REPORT “This may sound like gibberish to you, but I think I’m in a tragedy…” –Stranger Than Fiction In the 2006 film Stranger Than…
Book Printing and the Christmas Rush
Published: Wed, 11/08/23
ILLUMIFY AUTHOR UPDATE Procrastinate to Your Own Peril! Two weeks from tomorrow, we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving. Thank you for choosing Illumify to…