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  • Guest Posts | Writing Skills

    Find New Readers Through Podcasts

    ByDebra 22 August, 202222 August, 2022

    Would you like to find new readers? How about a pool of 116 million people in the United States alone? If that’s not enough incentive, how about a worldwide pool of 383 million people? How do you reach these wondrous potential readers? Through their ears. They’re podcast listeners!

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  • Fear and Doubt Busters | Motivation

    The Subtle Lie of Only One Person

    ByDebra 11 July, 202218 July, 2022

    Last month over at DebraLButterfield.com I spoke about some of the subtle lies Satan plants in our hearts without us even knowing it. And in actuality, I’m on a cleaning binge. I’m working to clean out the lies I have unwittingly embraced and that have kept me from enjoying the abundant life Jesus promised. A…

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  • Guest Posts | Writing Skills

    5 Tips to Add Other Cultures to Your Story Without Leaving the Country

    ByDebra 13 June, 202210 June, 2022

    Today’s guest post is by author L.A. Darroch, a Christian author with a heart for writing about the persecuted church and other stories that touch the hearts of readers for God’s glory. She seeks to use her writing to encourage readers to “Speak Life.” She credits her late father with introducing her to a passion…

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  • Writing Skills

    How to Handle Footnotes and Endnotes

    ByDebra 18 April, 202211 May, 2023

    Footnotes and endnotes tend to be cumbersome for most writers. Most certainly, I keep my Chicago Manual of Style handy when I’m editing notes. To avoid the weightiness of correct formatting, I like to cite my sources within the body of my text when I can. But I realize there is a time for notes….

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  • Writing Skills

    Sentence Structure and How It Impacts Your Reader

    ByDebra 14 March, 202214 March, 2022

    Sentence structure is a riveting subject, don’t you think so? Okay, maybe not. Me either. Let me ask you this instead: When you’re engrossed in a book, do you notice sentence structure? If you’re like me, you don’t notice it at all unless…it becomes monotonous. Last month, I looked at pacing. In that post, I…

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  • Writing Skills

    Pacing — What It Is and How to Manage It

    ByDebra 21 February, 202221 February, 2022

    “Pace yourself.” In my running days in the Marine Corps, I heard this imperative regularly. Perhaps you’ve heard it too. It means managing how quickly or slowly you run your distance. If you plan to run a mile, you don’t run the whole distance at a sprint like you would the 100-yard dash. You can…

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  • Business | Technology How-To's

    7 Manuscript Formatting Programs

    ByDebra 17 January, 20229 January, 2022

    Writers ask lots of questions, and the writing community pays it forward quite well. I see many questions on a regular basis. One is “what program do you use to format your manuscript?” These writers aren’t talking about how to format their manuscript for presenting to agents, editors, or publishers, but programs to format the…

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    Scaling the Cliff aka Starting Again

    ByDebra 13 December, 202113 December, 2021

    Last year while I was stumbling around in the midst of having my blog shifted to a new domain, my blog fell off the cliff. In early 2020, I decided to shift my writing website from one domain to another. I hired Marta Goertzen (Trail Guide Webworks) to do all the migrating and such, and…

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