Writing Advice with Dolores Liesner
What is your favorite writing craft book?
Extroverted Writer by Andrea Luedtke
Which do you think is the most underrated writing craft book?
Extroverted Writer. Small, simple but effective guide to marketing and building a platform Why? Perhaps because she is a literary agent and less known as an author.
What is your favorite (or most anticipated) writers conference?
CLASS conferences and Write to Publish – both are influential for writing opportunities, education and experience.
What’s your favorite other source (YouTube, podcast, etc.) for writing tips/info?
Edie Melson’s website https://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/
Who is your writing mentor/inspiration?
Pamela Farrel because she actively assists and demonstrates she truly cares about others and their success.
What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever received? Why was it bad?
Talk more about yourself and base success on how many books/articles you sell. Ministry is my goal. I do outreach/marketing but God provides the “success.”
What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received?
Develop habits to be consistent in writing and editing - daily if possible.
What would you say is the best writing tip for new authors?
Use the audible option to have the computer read your material – you will hear things you skip over reading because you know what you wrote and what you expect.
What is your best self-editing tip or advice?
Read sentence by sentence asking if there are redundant words you can remove without changing meaning (such as that).
Please share your most encouraging tip for frustrated/discouraged writers.
Write all you can one day, let it set to read and edit following day.
Tell us about your newest release/upcoming release.
I have several stories in various Guideposts and anthologies – Renewed Christmas Blessings (Michelle Rayburn), Bloom in Your Winter Season (Deborah Malone), Guidepost Devotionals Strength and Grace and Strengthened by His Touch (April 2024 series release).
Is there anything else you’d like to share?
Part of my testimony was dramatized on Unshackled, Pacific Garden Mission’s radio program.
Work in progress: Self-Help/Memoir of 12 Gifts of Grace I Received Through Caregiving My Abuser
Delores Liesner is a storyteller. Her writing and speaking inspires fans to activate their faith so they can be the miracle for others. Over a thousand of her articles are published in print and online (anthologies, columns, magazines, newsletters), including a compilation of 31 stories and life-changing challenges in her devotional, Be the Miracle! (Elk Lake Publishing 2015 & 2018). She is a graduate of CLASS SEMINARS, a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, was selected for 2022 Guideposts Writer Workshop and has won writing awards with Racine Art, Kathy Macias’ plotting contest and 2nd place with Today’s Christian Living magazine. Delores is often spotted reading (3-5 books at a time), trying new recipes, or munching dark chocolate and orange peel.
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