Ask the Author: Michael Powell
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Michael Powell
MOMENTS WITH MALACHI comes out in print on January 19th so there's lots of launch activities with that. I've got two more chapters to record on the audio version of MWM. Then it will be right into VICTORY WITH JESUS which will come out in digital form in March and print and audio form in June. I'm speaking to youth groups twice in January, and attending the San Fransisco writer's conference in February. There's always much going on in my life when it comes to teaching, writing, preaching, and learning.
Michael Powell
Read. Read in your genre. Read how to write. Read how to publish. Read how to market. Read and apply. When I first thought I'd be a writer, I assumed that I would write 50 hours a week. Now I see that the time of a full time writer (who's making money) is probably split into marketing, reading, and writing in equal thirds.
Michael Powell
By far, for me, it's creating. Most of our activities each day only maintain (like cleaning or mowing the yard), but writing creates. There's a blank page, and then there's a story. Since we are made in the image of God, and He is Creator, and think any form of creating connects us better to God. Writing can even be a form of worship.
Michael Powell
Well to be honest, sometimes writer's block has it's way, and I don't write for up to a week. Usually after a week I've thought of enough ways to continue the story, or logical point of the book, and I get back after it. There have been many weeks that I set out to write 10,000 words and only wrote 800.
But at my better moments I deal with writer's block by continuing to write around the particular block. For example, if I'm working on a novel, and I'm blocked, I can switch to work on a blog post or a newsletter or a children's book or a nonfiction Christian inspirational text. Having lots of projects at once helps keep production moving even when I'm struggling to keep moving on one particular project.
But at my better moments I deal with writer's block by continuing to write around the particular block. For example, if I'm working on a novel, and I'm blocked, I can switch to work on a blog post or a newsletter or a children's book or a nonfiction Christian inspirational text. Having lots of projects at once helps keep production moving even when I'm struggling to keep moving on one particular project.
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