Steve Bremner
Author, Podcaster & Writing Coach
If you're new here, allow me to point out to you my main focus and passion in life is writing. Whether that be in blog format, book format, ghostwriting or crafting content on social media.
The articles tagged as writing posts and showing up in this archive ought to give you a good headstart if you're looking to hone in your own writing craft and get that book written!
Go the way of least resistance in life. Don't ask questions about why things are the way they are -- just accept it. When people challenge your dreams and say something can't be done -- or …
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I recorded this episode about 2 months ago and never got around to editing it and publishing it online until now. I shared from an article of Kris Vallatton's called 6 Reasons to Write and spent …
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Reviews by ordinary people have become an essential mechanism for selling almost anything online; they are used for resorts, dermatologists, neighborhood restaurants, high-fashion boutiques, …
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Welcome to today's episode of the podcast. This one was a long time coming, as it had been on my mind to invite today's guest on the show for quite a while, but I never went for it until a few …
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Nine Lies People Believe About Speaking in Tongues is now available in Paperback and Kindle on Amazon through Destiny Image Publishers. Book Description Discover the Biblical Truth about the …
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Whether you blog or write self-published books, you’re bound to face criticism for your writings. In fact, something is wrong if you don’t. From time to time my books get one-star reviews …
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If there’s one thing that Amazon has helped to do, it’s to lower the bar for any and every aspiring author to reach their dreams. No longer do you have to be among the one in a thousand authors …
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If you want your message to reach the maximum number of people, a blog is hands down the best means I know. But who’s got time? It doesn’t matter if I’m speaking with someone just starting to …
I was privileged to be on The Praying Medic Podcast this week. Over the previous weekend PM and I had a three hour recorded Skype conversation on the heels of having just recently recorded a …
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I was privileged to be on The Praying Medic Podcast this week. Over the weekend PM and I had a three hour recorded Skype conversation the heels of having just recently recorded a lengthy episode …
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I was privileged to finally have Chris Wilson on the podcast. You may remember he was the interviewer that had me on his YouTube channel a year and a half ago, and has been a tremendous …
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When I was a pre-adolescent, I had an advanced reading-level. I remember my teachers in fifth and sixth grade telling my parents during parent-teacher interviews that I had the reading level of …
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Last night, we got a notification from our leaders Mark and Anna that upon returning from a three-week trip to the United States, Mark had left a bag with his passport and $4500 cash and other …
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I just came across this post the other day on Pro Blogger, 5 Ways to Make Your Blogging Life Easier. It is one of the blog sites I have subscribed to for years to get new ideas for both content …
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For those who don't know, when you self-publish a book, and if you join Facebook groups for writers, you get approached by a lot of other self-published authors who offer to scratch your back if …
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I posted a blog a few weeks ago called "Do you know what your missionaries are actually doing?", and though it didn't exactly go viral or anything, I can't help but think this whole situation …
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You'll have to forgive me for yet another post about Amazon Kindle in quick succession. I've been working on some other updates and more theological posts about disciple-making for my blog which …
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This post is written specifically for other authors who've written Kindle books or are planning on it. I've written previously why many authors make their ebooks exclusive to the Amazon platform, …
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From time to time, I get asked why my books aren't available on the Kobo/Nook/iPad, or [insert your non-Kindle e-reader of choice]. The simple answer? The vast majority of e-book readers use a …
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If you have ever gotten an ebook that you can read on your Kindle, but you didn't buy it or obtain it from Amazon, don't worry. Placing it on your Kindle is quite easy. I recently gave away …
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This picture above is from my first trip to Peru in 2008. These are the 'homes' of people who lived in the city of Chincha or Pisco (I can't remember which of the two when I took this photo that …
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I recently purchased a program called Scrivener. I'm not going to lie to you, at first I only downloaded it because it seemed to be the "in" thing to use for writing if you're a writer. So I …
Sunday morning after our home church service, Shaun approached me and asked if I could help the person he was evidently talking to. He was talking to a middle-aged woman along with a young woman …
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Recently I was setting out to accomplish a task that I’ve known for a long time I could easily do, but for some reason I had put it off. I am not talking about procrastination, but the type of …
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Thanks to all of your help, we made Six Lies People Believe About Divine Healing rank number one in Pentecostal Christian Kindle books by around 5:00 pm Central Standard Time on Friday. The …
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This morning during my coffee drinking, news reading and checking email, I came across the following email; Hi, I'd like to inquire about doing a sponsored blog post - about 150-300 words that …
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Recently this year, I had been re-evaluating what impact I'm having in the lives of other people, especially here on the ground in Peru where I'm a "missionary". I've often struggled with the …
It looks like I'm not the only one having epiphanies about making disciples. J. Lee Grady, the former editor of Charisma magazine and the director of The Mordecai …
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If you've not been reading my series on my personal testimony, it'd help you if you started from the beginning. However, it's not completely necessary and you can jump in right now if you wish. A …
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