A Step in the
Write
Direction
September 21, 2015
Update: I can honestly say this is the
best week I’ve had since March 7th. I don’t know if six months is
some kind of a miracle anniversary or not, but I’ve felt more peace and
contentment these last few days. I know much of it is due to the support of my
family and the prayers of my friends—those I’ve know personally and those I’ve
come to know through this blog and Facebook. Thank you all!...I’m in a weird
situation right now—no work to do—that is, for others! So I’m back to cleaning
and sorting, reading books and giving them away, and the slides are all done. As
soon as I clean out the two 4-drawer file cabinets, I’m going to tackle my
photographs—bags and bags of them! I have them in albums up to 1974; the rest
are divided by year and that’s all. Will be work, but fun. Any of you have that
same dilemma? What’s your secret to getting them
organized?
Thought for
Today: “I
find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into
another room and read a good book” (Groucho Marx, Reader’s Digest, October 2015, p.
21).
Song for
Today:
Let us labor
for the Master from the dawn till setting sun;
Let us talk
of all His wondrous love and care;
Then when all
of life is over, and our work on earth is doe,
And the roll
is called up yonder, I’ll be there.
James M. Black, “When the Roll Is
Called Up Yonder”
Laugh for
Today: Bob
forgot his wedding anniversary and his wife was mad. She told him, “Tomorrow
morning I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6
seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE!” The next morning when his wife woke up, she
looked out the window to find a box…gift wrapped in the middle of the driveway.
She opened it and found…a bathroom scale. Bob has been missing ever
since.
Writer’s Tips: Writing
Nonfiction
When
I first considered writing nonfiction, it seemed that others had already covered
every topic I wanted to write about. I had a lot of ideas, but wondered how they
differed from those already written. Then, while sitting in a nonfiction
workshop, I realized that what made each article unique is the slant that only a particular writer can give it.
God
has given each of us a distinctive personality, and He has allowed you and me to
go through circumstances in a way no one else has experienced. You are a unique
individual—a mother or father, brother or sister, aunt or uncle. You're part of
a married couple, a single parent, or never married. You’re a student, you’re
employed, you’re retired.
If
married, what have you experienced? First-year adjustment, in-law problems,
financial struggles? As a parent: infertility, adoption, preschool children,
challenges with teens, adult children still living at home? Whatever you’ve gone
through, you’re the only one who can write an article or book in your own
voice.
The
emotion you share in your story will make your article stand out from the other
manuscripts the editor receives. Those may have facts—the skeleton, so to
speak—but yours can have "flesh." You may have added research and statistics,
quotations from other books, and even a friend’s story, but you’re also showing
how this experience has affected your
life. Showing how God has brought you through this particular situation can help
others going through the same trial and help them to find victory.
Have a good week spreading
the
gospel
through the printed page.
Donna
Clark Goodrich
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