Monday, November 2, 2009
Keep your mind on Him...
Isaiah 26:3-4 (King James Version) 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: The Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%2026:3-4;&version=65;...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
What are we trying to do when we write?
I think the effort a writer makes to communicate with his or her reader can range from a surface encounter all the way to a dramatic change in world view. "My task - which I am trying to achieve - is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel. It is, before all, to make you...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Short but profound...
and this quote leaves me pondering if our ability to use words is truly what makes us human... "Words are all we have."-Samuel Beckett
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
There's an advantage to being the teller of the story.
You get to tell it from your perspective, how you remember things. "Growing up with five brothers taught me that it's good to be the guy telling the story after the lamp gets broken."-Jon Scieszka
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Writing exertion?
Do you feel drained when you write? Worn out? Exhausted? Here is an interesting quote.... "Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, the...
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