Writing Christian Fiction
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Stranger Than Fiction $3.00 Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold discovers he’s the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson), an eccentric author famous for killing her main characters in creative… |
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Chronicling Narnia $3.12 Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/15/2005 Run time: 75 minutes… |
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The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis $29.94 The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis redefines the professional strategies and personal qualities that this current age of incessant crisis demands of leaders in corporate C-suites, boardrooms, courtrooms, and in the corridors of political power. Drawing on dozens of extensive interviews with prominent leaders who describe and reflect on their most significant experiences, Richard Le… |
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Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage by Ed Wheat M.D and Gaye Wheat – Updated Revised and Expanded – Hardcover – Copyright 1977 $19.99 Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage by Ed Wheat M.D and Gaye Wheat – Updated Revised and Expanded – Hardcover – Copyright 1977… |
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Fated: Torn Apart by History, Bound for Eternity $3.99 For the New Year, Fated will be value priced at $2.99! Get it before it goes back up to its regular price of $4.99!Fated…#1 Historical and Fantasy RomanceTorn Apart By HistoryBound For Eternity”From Carolyn McCray comes a historical romance that will leave you hoping that for once, fate will be kind. You will be gripped from the first page to the last, caught in a love that spans eons and an anc… |
RevTrev Reviews …Writing Christian Fiction
There are a number of misconceptions about search engines, especially Google, and how they treat blog posts and articles. One such misconception is called “duplicate content.” The myth is that if you submit the same content to a bunch of different places, you’ll be penalized for having the same content in multiple locations. If this were true, article directories would have died long ago.
Everyone is confused about duplicate content.
Syndication is a good thing
If a bot comes across multiple domains with the same content, it will algorithmically determine which URL best represents the duplicate content. If you have duplicate content on your site, the bot will do the same thing. The search engines’ job is to provide searchers with the best representatives of the data they’re looking for, not provide different URLs with the same content.
The easiest way to reduce the potential of being labeled a “search engine deceiver” is to create a noindex meta tag for the duplicate content. This tells the bot to ignore it.
Of course, if you have a large amount of duplicate content on your site, you will be penalized and labeled an online nuisance. In retaliation, the search engines may stop indexing your site or, at the very least, reduce its ranking considerably. Think this is hard to do? Well, if you have an online version and a print version of the same content, you technically have duplicate content. So, for the print version, create the noindex tag and you’re golden.
Why do I mention this? If you’re planning on submitting the same blog post or articles to a variety of places, you can do this confidently knowing you won’t get dinged for having the same content in many locations. However, understand that only one site will rank the highest and others might not be ranked at all.
This means you need to be strategic about how you post items. If you want a blog post to rank on your site, put it there first. If you’re submitting an article to a directory, then you’ll want to submit to the high-end authority site like EzineArticles.com first.
If you’d like to read more about duplicate content issues, you can find in-depth information at Google Webmaster Central.
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How can Christians thrive in creative careers?
Can a Christian be creative (scripturally)?
I was raised conservative–to be skeptical of “liberal” Christians. My views are becoming more moderate, but I’m beginning to feel the wrath of the conservative Christians who’ve always loved me–at least when I express anything related to my creativity, such as writing Christian fiction (we’re only supposed to deal in truth), or painting female angels (since all the angels mentioned in the Bible are males.)
What’s the best way for me to pursue my dual creative careers and market my work to ALL Christians–liberal ones included–without losing my original conservative peers?
Let’s put it this way: people aren’t so interested in the truth. People like fiction, whatever is created. So, we as christians can use this to our advantage. I’m currently writing a novel about a man who has too learn how to put on the Armor of God. So, the reader enjoys a nice action novel while learning about the Bible. What you CAN do is to state somewhere on your painting or book that what’s there is entirely fictitious.
The apostle Paul took advantage of every situation he found. Once he saw an altar to an “unknown god.” You know what he did? He said, “I’m here to preach about THIS God!”
Was that or was that not creative?
