What Have You Learned Lately? by Andy Scheer

Veteran writer Bob Hostetler showed no surprise this past weekend during the Writing for the Soul conference when I attended his class on nonfiction one-sheets.

Nor did Jerry Jenkins raise an eyebrow when several faculty members — themselves professional editors — attended our “thick-skinned manuscript clinics.”

One faculty member did say she was startled when another staffer – who’d headed a publishing house and taught journalism for decades — came to hear her teach. What surprised her was that he sat in the middle of the front row.

If you want to grow in your writing craft, Jerry Jenkins told the conferees, you never stop learning.

In Bob Hostetler’s class, I picked up some solid tips on preparing one-sheets. What have you learned lately?