I’m placing this post in the mission statement category because it’s one that doesn’t come along every day. Maybe it’s Glenn Gould’s piano playing in the background. Maybe it’s the frustrating day I had. Maybe it’s the setting sun, the passing summer, the culminating of all this thinking I’ve been doing in regards to the clash of the real and
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God knows I’ve tormented my fellow editor and friend, Shannon Hill plenty over the past year. So for my first anniversary with WaterBrook, it’s nice I can set the record straight with Lauren Winner’s article in PW, The Series Still Rules. I mean, how much do we admire this? "This fall, WaterBrook is releasing When the Heart Cries, the first
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Susan Meissner is an incredibly talented, relatively new writer who crafts intriguing stories of depth and spiritual insight. She also does it incredibly fast. Blazing fast by some standards. She has been nominated for many awards, won several, and recently took issue with a comment I made in response to Athol Dickson’s post at Charis Connection about the pace of
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"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." –Laurence J. Peter "Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats." –Howard Aiken "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try
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Just FYI, the woman who brought hand cream on a plane is in custody tonight, so you can rest easy tonight. Come on! Ladies, quit jerking around and just give up the lotion already! Okay. Sorry. That’s done. Originally, this began in my hard drive as a post on creativity, how to be creative and cultivate it and all that.
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