by Ronnie Reese

Created on: August 16, 2009   Last Updated: August 20, 2009

How to increase freelance writing income

'Tapping-In' to your Spiritual Sources

A lot of writers are neglecting one of the biggest publishing prospects that has yet to be fully marketed. Somehow, many of us have neglected our spiritual roots. Though we compose poems, plays, and novels about the physical world that surrounds us, many of us seem to have forgotten that we're not just flesh, blood and bone. True, many writers have a concept of God, and many actually go to a church, synagogue, or mosque once a week. But we seem hoodwinked into believing that writing on something of a spiritual nature is a waste of time.

If we read Janette Oke, Jerry Jenkins, and Linda Chaikin, shouldn't others? And shouldn't the read our works?

And yet how many of you writers in recent years have actually been blessed by picking up a Guidepost's Magazine, or some other piece of Christian literature. Come on, confession is good for the soul. Many of you have enjoyed reading stories with a God theme for years. Several names come to mind- Linda Chaikin, Lori Copeland, Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn, Jerry B. Jenkins, Bodie Thoene and Terri Blackstock. Writers like these have had such wonderful success that even television and the movie industry has become interested in their wares.

Godly writers needed.

I was just like a lot of you. I never thought of launching a writing career at all, and if I had, I wouldn't have even considered a future in writing about spiritual things until just a few years ago. You can call it an impression or whatever you want, but one morning I got up and banged out an incident that happened in the nursing home where I was working as a nursing assistant at the time.

My first published article

Within a week of the time I sent the story out to several Christian and Jewish magazines, I received a reply from Penny Estes Wheeler, editor of 'Women of Spirit'. She let me know that their magazine was written by women writers, but she felt they needed that piece, so she purchased it for $65.

Thinking outside the box

And that was the start of my thinking outside the box. You see, in the first place I had never really done any writing before. Since that time I've sent that article to several other places as well, with the understanding that they would not have 1st rights. So three other magazines purchased the story. Altogether my total earnings for that story are $204.50. Since that time, I've also let a couple newsletters, magazines, and newspapers print

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