Eliminating the Clutter
I am always on the lookout for resources that will help me improve my writing, my editing, my marketing, and my knowledge of my subject...
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Dennis L. Peterson
- Sep 2, 2016
- 3 min
What’s Our Excuse? (Part 5)
By now, you know the point that I’ve been driving at in the previous four posts. Others overcame great obstacles and wrote in spite of...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Aug 30, 2016
- 2 min
What’s Our Excuse? (Part 4)
The Bible tells us that the apostle Paul was arrested, tried, and punished multiple times for the sake of the gospel. He was whipped five...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Aug 26, 2016
- 2 min
What’s Our Excuse (Part III)
At first, back in seventeenth-century England, Bunyan was just a tinker, an itinerant small businessman who sold and repaired metal...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Aug 23, 2016
- 2 min
What’s Our Excuse? (Part 2)
Continuing our survey of some famous writers who refused to use their circumstances as an excuse not to write, today we consider another...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Aug 19, 2016
- 2 min
He Wrote in Spite of Problems–What’s Our Excuse?
How often we writers find every possible excuse not to do what we want other people to think we do–write. We are too tired, too busy, too...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Aug 16, 2016
- 3 min
How Do You Find Time to Write?
Following publication of a review of my book Confederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries in my hometown newspaper, a high school...
Dennis L. Peterson
- May 18, 2016
- 1 min
The Key to Writing Good History
Too many history writers today have an agenda that dictates how and what they write. And too often those writers are driven by political...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Apr 27, 2016
- 1 min
What Timing! Southern Writers Suite T
This Southern Writers Suite T blog post came out the day after the copies of my book Confederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Apr 26, 2016
- 1 min
It’s Just Like Giving Birth–My Book Is On the Market!
The book was not scheduled to be delivered to the printer until May 1, but apparently the Lord had different plans! It was available for...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Apr 26, 2016
- 1 min
The Power of a Story
On a day when our writing might not seem worth it, when we are not seeing fruit like that which our mind imagines we should, when we...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Mar 18, 2016
- 3 min
The Good Editor, a Rare Breed
Reading about editors the other day reminded me of two things: my own experiences as an editor and the editors with whom I’ve been...
Dennis L. Peterson
- Sep 4, 2015
- 2 min
Change and Continuity Revisited
Today, I take a brief glance backward to August 28, 2015, when I posted this article, my first effort at blogging. Much has changed since...
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