Candle and Keyboard Summer 2000
You'll never know whether you're gifted in writing until you attack it as if you had the intention of going all the way. Don't look back to stop to entertain the inevitable doubts. Before you finish these lessons, you will probably have a good idea where you belong.
William Neill-Hall, Literary Agent
A glance at the Contents Page will convince you that this is a must-have book for aspiring and established writers I am particularly recommend lesson one (Vision) and lesson three (Effective sentences). Also the Index is one of the best I have seen
Book Description
An in-depth companion to the complete writing experience. Although billed as 'an introduction' the book will be most valuable to those who have some experience of Christian writing.
From the Publisher
Highland edition not available in North American: see ACW Press edition (189252516X)
From the Back Cover
Streamlining the creative process is the key skill for serious writers with deadlines to meet. Here is a book that takes you through all the steps from catching the vision to what to do with the finished manuscript.
About the Author
Based in America Ethel Herr is much in demand as a teacher, motivator and coach at writers' conferences, in step with the success of the first (US) edition of the present work.
Excerpted from Introduction to Christian Writing by Ethel Herr. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
So you think you want to write? You may feel God nudging you toward a typewriter or computer. You may have written a few things, perhaps shared them with a friend, or even published a poem or an article. Yet, you wonder whether you should work at it hard enough to call yourself a writer. You wish someone would help you decide and show you how to get started. ( . . . )
All of us would like to think our written works are like great cathedrals. Built with grand design and exquisite materials! Glowing with gem-like windows, candle-fragrant beauty, and soul-stirring organ music! Pointing people toward God! Housing a throne for the Great Bishop of our souls-Jesus Christ Himself!
But where does one begin to build a cathedral? A prominent historiographer makes an excellent suggestion: "If once one learns to quarry a humble block of stone, one can hope someday to build a great cathedral," The humble blocks of stone we learn to quarry are called paragraphs.
The paragraph is a cohesive group of sentences which develops a single idea and supports that idea with details.
