Remember your audience, your readers.
We don’t have to impress them with every detail. Write “to the point” (Jerry Jenkins) and let the reader imagine the rest. Allow the reader to interpret the details.
Keep the story lively by adding conflict and tragedy that cannot be “second-guessed.”
Write original dialogue and narrative to make the reader stop and think, to place your characters in situations you’ve never thought of and the reader has never seen. Good authors think through their scenes and create original narrative.
Use active verbs, not passive anything (Jerry Jenkins).
Use verbs that express movement, action, intense situations, and move the story forward. Jerry Jenkins gives great advice on this and points out great examples in his writings.
Have in mind to submit your article, story, or book in the direction of a traditional periodical publisher, or book publisher.
Use the Christian Writer’s Market Guide or the Writer’s Digest Writer’s Guide to find an appropriate publisher. Too many ‘good’ writers, write and ‘stuff’ their written manuscripts into file folders, never to be read or published. What a tragedy! Always write with the goal to publish, even if it’s a short article. Never give in or give up on yourself! You are a writer and soon to be a published write
Find a professional editor to check your work.
Always have a professional editor or someone who knows grammar and transitional coherency, to check your work. Be professional by submitting your best/highest quality of work to a publisher (Jerry Jenkins). Always check the publisher’s guidelines and follow them to the letter.
Enjoy it, but be careful!
Writing doesn’t have to be easy to be fun. If you’re writing what you love, or at least what engages your mind and personal interests, you have a better chance to make it enjoyable. So, find a genre you like and write in that arena. Have fun, but stay keenly aware of what your message is conveying and that your historical, and factual details are correct for that era.
Ingredients for articles and books readers can enjoy!