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Dennis L. Peterson
Sep 9, 20163 min read
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...
Dennis L. Peterson
Sep 2, 20163 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20162 min read
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, 20163 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20163 min read
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, 20152 min read
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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