A Step in the Write
Direction
April 20, 2015
Update: Good
thought I read recently on www.sermons@clergy.net. “Bring together a group of five-year-olds
and ask how many of them sing. Every hand will go up. Bring the same group
together when they're twelve, and ask how many of them sing. One hand will go
up, the young "professional" singer and performer. What happens between five
years of age and twelve that our children lose their song, the one-of-a-kind,
unrepeatable, irreplaceable song God made them to be?...” Our pastor said
one Sunday, “I’ve buried a lot of people with the song still in them.” What
song, story, article, poem, book has God called you to write? Are you doing
it?
Thought for Today: “It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these
times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his
own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to
anyone’s notable achievements” (Crostics, Volume 175, Crostic
4).
Song for Today
Give of your
best to the Master;
Give Him first
place in your heart;
Give Him first
place in your service;
Consecrate ev’ry
part.
Howard B. Grose, “Give of Your Best
to the Master”
Laugh for
Today: The embarrassed hostess said to her company, "I'm sorry, I thought
I told you to come over after dinner. "You did," the guests
replied.
"And that's what we came
after."
Writer’s
Tips: More
Samples of Descriptive
Writing
*
p. 14, “Mick felt like a water pitcher that
had been drained of the last drop.”
*
p. 99, “But
somehow love had sneaked in the back door and locked itself around
her.”
*
p. 142, “Taylor was a man who had locked his
heart away in a treasure chest and buried it deep in the garden of his soul—so
deep that no woman alive could ever touch it.”
*
p. 284, “A
joyous sob spilled from her inner being like the fragrance of a rosebud that has
awakened from a dark night to erupt into full bloom with the splendid dawn of
liberty.”
(The Awakening by Debra
White Smith, Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers,
2000.)
Instead of
“Sally was so sad and depressed”:
“Suddenly she
realized the sound in the room was her own sobbing. She felt tears on her
cheeks. She raised a hand and it trembled before her eyes. I could end it all, she thought
without warning.” (Jack M. Bickham, “Getting Started in Writing,” p. 47, under
subheading “Revealing Characters).
The
Bible
“For
ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field
shall clap their hands” (Isaiah 55:8-13).
Have a good week spreading
the
gospel
through the printed page.
Donna
Clark Goodrich
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