Here’s a beautiful quotation from poet Ranier maria Rilke’s book, Letters to a Young Poet So rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you, describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty – describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you … [Read more...]
Apps and Friends
I wanted a Bible app for my IPhone for the times I was in my study with my morning devotions. I don’t like to get on the computer during that time because it’s a distraction. I have a Bible page-a-day calendar. Each day I rip off a page and paste it into my journal. I then compare it with other translations. Next I write it out in second person, present time. When I go back … [Read more...]
Florida Bookstore Day at The Book Rack
Yesterday I went to our small downtown, here in Titusville, to the Book Rack for Florida Bookstore Day. I packed twenty-seven Florida Springs Trilogy books in an Office Depot cart. I should have ordered the extra three earlier because they didn’t come in time for the book signing. I arrived after the other four writers did, partly because I had to go back in … [Read more...]
Commenting on Comments~Part 1
I enjoyed all the comments that came from the blog. ”Writing – What is Easy, What is Hard.” Mary Harwell Sayler, doyenne of Christian Poets and Writers asked writers to tell her what they find easy about writing and what they find difficult. My bottom line answer was that I found blogs easy, but isolated spots in my novels are as hard to write as good pie crust is to … [Read more...]
