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Everyone Writes
Life is a piece of paper whiteWhereon each one of us may write his word or two, And then comes night.Greatly begin! Though thou have timeBut for a line, be that sublime – Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Where do your ideas come from?
My reading
Where do your ideas come from?
My reading
My living
Where do your ideas come from?
My reading
My living
My interactions with others
How do you tackle the art of revision?
How do you tackle the art of revision?
It’s never done until it has been revised
How do you tackle the art of revision?
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
How do you tackle the art of revision?
I listen to my editors
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Rick Warren
My editors
How do you handle “less than positive" comments from your readers? ?
How do you handle “less than positive" comments from your readers? ?
Listen
Proverbs 12:15The way of fools seems right
to them, but the wise listen to advice.
Listen to our critics!
Proverbs 19:20Listen to advice and accept
discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.
Listen to our critics!
How do you handle “less than positive" comments from your readers? ?
Listen
Look for the kernel of truth.
How do you handle less than positive" comments from your readers? ?
Listen
Look for the kernel of truth.
Keep on writing.
Stephen King
What happens if you get "writer's block"?
What happens if you get "writer's block"?
1.Pray
What happens if you get "writer's block"?
1.Pray2.Change my place
and my pace
What happens if you get "writer's block"?
1.Pray2.Change my place
and my pace3.Don’t quit
How do you know when God is prompting you to write about a specific subject?
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5 Things I Have Learned About Writing
1. Writing is hard work
Writing is hard work
The first rule of doing work that matters:Go to work on a regular basis. Art is hard. Selling is hard. Writing is hard. Making a difference is hard.
Choosing the right word is hard work
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
How long does it take to write one post?
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk
leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23 NIV
God honors hard work
2. Writing takes discipline
2. Writing takes discipline
Isaac Asimov wrote and published more Than 400 (!) books by typing non-stopfrom 6 am to noon, every day for forty years.
(Poke The Box)
2. Writing takes discipline
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
God honors discipline
3. Writing takes deliberate practice
How many hours?
3. Writing takes deliberate practice
10,000 hours
4. Writing is rewarding work
4. Writing is rewarding work
4. Writing is rewarding work
4. Writing is rewarding work
4. Writing is rewarding work
28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature
that moves on the ground. Genesis 1:28
Cultural Mandate
5. Write about what you love
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