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    How to Write Faith-based Messages for a Secular Market
    How to Write Faith-based Messages for a Secular Market
    How to Write Faith-based Messages for a Secular Market
    Audiobook26 minutes

    How to Write Faith-based Messages for a Secular Market

    Written by Mary Gray

    Narrated by Mary Gray

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    About this audiobook

    Are you a secular writer who also strives to incorporate messages of hope or faith?

    I'm one of those writers, and I've fought for years to learn how to balance both aspects successfully. in this short nonfiction book, I'll share the method I’ve learned to subtly incorporate faith-based messages in secular stories. I’ll discuss:

    • How to fill your spiritual well & know what to add without getting preachy

    • Know where and how to add these precious gems of knowledge via the sneaky art of subplotting

    • How to stay resilient against the adversary while considering marketability


    I'd love to help you get your stories to the next level of hope and faith, so click to sample or buy now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMonster Ivy Publishing
    Release dateFeb 3, 2018
    ISBN9781948095075
    How to Write Faith-based Messages for a Secular Market
    Author

    Mary Gray

    Mary Gray moved through small town newspaper editing, corporate public relations, and international travel planning before she retired to write poetry, essays, magazine articles, and Poetic Justice. The manuscript was a semi-finalist as a novel-in-progress in the 2017 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She is the ghost writer for two memoirs, Gerald Fitzgerald’s Africa by Air and General John Henebry’s The Grim Reapers at Work in the Pacific Theater. She has delivered readings at the Chicago Public Library, The Printers Row Book Fair, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Emily Dickinson Poetry Series, the University of Chicago, and DePaul University. She graduated from Northwestern University School of Journalism and has attended the Ragdale Writers’ Retreat and the Piper Writers Studio at Arizona State.

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    • 4/5
      Makes some good points about writing character arcs and how to use fool characters.
    • 5/5
      Short but good information , i i say thaaank you