For the greater purposes of our community here, I offer this short bit adapted from “A Defence of Poesy” by Sir Philip Sidney, 1595. I’m hoping to offer more as time allows, and if you find it helpful (you can find the original text here, and an excellent introduction to Sir Sidney’s defense in Don Williams’ essay, "Christian Poetics, Past
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In our profession, Coffee—note the capital C—is lifeblood. There’s a reason for that. And it isn’t just flavor. So this morning, my wife came up while I was getting ready. “Deep thought,” she said as she sipped. “If you don’t use enough beans, you’re just wasting it.” Deep thought, indeed. Why go to the effort of making it if you
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"’It’s the way this business has run since 1640,’ he says. That is when 1,700 copies of the Bay Psalm Book were published in the colonies. ‘It was a gamble, and they guessed right because it sold out of the print run. And ever since then, it has been a crap shoot.’" “People think publishing is a business, but it’s
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Writers are all called to write different things. But like the excellent Tozer quote Jen M pointed out, instead we copy each other. Ideally, we’d all be writing the thing only we can write. We each have different talents and tasks, and yet we’re all called to truthfulness. And if we lack in content and substance, style and form, our
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