Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
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Helping to Change the World Word by Word
May you have a wonderful week leading up to Christmas Day.
May His peace and joy be integral to your daily life now and forevermore.
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No new posts for the next two weeks. We all are taking a short break for the holidays.
Back in the saddle starting January 6th!
Hello, my friends and fellow word-crafters, I’m taking a short break from writing posts on craft to celebrate the season of Christmas and offer you a bit of encouragement. As writers, we are in the business of storytelling—crafting worlds, creating characters, and weaving plots that resonate with readers. Or, if we’re nonfiction writers, putting together words that offer help, advice, and hope for …
The Christmas season is a lovely time to bless and remember our blog community and to let you know how much your thoughtful comments have brought insight and pleasure over the years. Thank you for being part of our community. I pray that as we move through Advent that you and your loved ones are blessed as we all await in glorious anticipation to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of our Lord …
A blessed Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating it. “Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.” (Psalm 107:8-9, ESV)
Today is a special day in the United States where we honor our veterans. It is our opportunity to thank and celebrate all those who have served our country in military service. Thank you for your service! In 2021, Andrew Budek-Schmeisser posted these great words, and we are reposting them with his permission. They are perfect for this day: They did not have deferments,or parents in high places,yet …
Fourteen years ago, the great Hall-of-Fame basketball coach John Wooden passed away at the age of ninety-nine. As you can see from the photo above, I had the privilege of attending one of his basketball camps during the Summer of 1974–fifty years ago. It was a John Wooden and Bill Sharman (coaches of UCLA and the LA Lakers, respectively) camp in Honolulu. We lived and breathed basketball …
Over six and a half years ago, I wrote a blog for this space on the necessity for authors to be students of history. Awareness of past events is important to determine a current context, a healthy perspective, and a sense of how things change (or not). Sometimes, the long-term implications of an event are quite different than initially thought. Most of us can look back on life events with a …
Not everyone likes to read. I went to school with one boy who would always choose the shortest book for a report. One day in fourth grade, he got in front of the class and gave a brief report. The teacher asked, “Did you get this report from the book jacket? You didn’t really read this book, did you?” He had to admit that the teacher caught him taking a shortcut. In fifth grade, this boy got in …
When asked what I do for a living I will sometimes answer, “I read.” Then when asked what I do for fun I smile and say, “I read.” That is one of the joys of being a literary agent, the privilege of reading…a lot. As such, the quantity of material that must be consumed just to keep up can be overwhelming. An ability to read quickly helps but also the ability to …
I love books, especially old or rare ones. Back in college I spent a couple months working in the back room of the university library repairing their rare book collection. I’ll never forget the awe of holding a copy of a book by Theodore Beza, a student of John Calvin, dated in the 1600s. I also recall one summer in Washington D.C. around the now-defunct CBA booksellers convention when a …
