A
Step in the Write
Direction
August
31, 2015
Update:
This has been a pretty quiet week for a change. Our daughter is having physical
therapy for the rotator cuff surgery. It’ll be two or three weeks before she can
go back to work, and then only light duty for several months….I’m enjoying the
new flooring in our mobile home; seems to make the place look bigger. Will have
the two bedrooms done later….The publisher has designed three new covers for A Step in the Write Direction. If you'd like to see them and tell me which one you like, email me at: dgood648@aol.com.….I went through the boxes of all my
books and wrote down the number I have left. I just have 29 left of Step and 21 of the Student edition. If you’re looking for a
Christmas gift for a writer friend, or if you’d like to buy some at the reduced
price and resell them for a club moneymaker, Step will be $10 and Student will be $8, plus s&h.
Need to get ready for the new combined book coming out
soon.
Thought
for the Day:
“When a man or woman has the conviction
that he or she is doing the work God called him to do there is a zeal in his
soul that all the forces of the world cannot destroy" (Charles
Stanley).
Song
for the Day:
Breathe
on me, Breath of God;
Fill
me with life anew,
That
I may love what Thou dost love,
And
do what Thou wouldst do.
“Breathe on me, Breath of God,”
Edwin Hatch
Laugh
for the Day:
Two
antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much,
but the reception was excellent.
A
jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, “I’ll serve you, but don’t
start anything.”
Good
descriptive writing
(from Cecil Murphey’s newsletter Writer to Writer):
“You don’t write about the horrors of war.
No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road” (Richard
Price).
Writer’s
Tips: Short Stories
(continued)
Setting:
Where
does this story take place and are you acquainted with the setting you are
using? If an actual location, have you been there or researched the area?
Bea
Carlton, novelist and conference instructor says, “Make the readers taste, feel,
see, hear, and smell what you are describing. Use colors, scents, sounds. Even
if the setting is not exotic,” Carlton says, “it should be made real to the
readers. Let them feel the heat, taste the sweat and dust, see the heat waves
shimmering over the cracked ground! Let them experience the agony of thirst!”
Where does will your story take place? In a short story, your location may
simply be a house, a schoolroom, or a church, rather than a city or
state.)
Have a good week spreading
the
gospel
through the printed page.
Donna
Clark Goodrich
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100-Plus
Motivational Moments for Writers and Speakers
– half-price $5, $2.69 s&h (This is free if you purchase 5 other
books.)
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A
Step in the Write Direction—the
Complete How-to Guide for Christian Writers—on sale--$10.00, $3.22 s&h
(only 29 left)
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A
Step in the Write Direction—Student Edition with assignments
throughout—on
sale—$8, $2.72 s&h)
·
The
Freedom of Letting Go (new
one coming out will have discussion questions; can be used in S.S. class or
small group); original copies without questions now on sale for
half-price--$7.50, $2.69 s&h
·
Healing
in God’s Time (story
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$15; now $10, $2.69 s&h
·
The
Little Book of Big Laughs—105
purse/pocket-size book of clean jokes—$5; up to 4 for same
s&h—$2.69
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Preparing
Your Heart for Christmas (31 Advent Devotions)
half-price—$5
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Michigan and Ohio
Cookbooks; half-price $5 each,
plus s&h (depending on number ordered)
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Grandmother,
Mother, and Me—1
left, $10, $3.22 s&h
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