Month: January 2021
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Tending the Flame: 3 Ways to Stay Inspired with Your Writing
“I only write when I’m inspired, so I see to it that I’m inspired every morning at nine o’clock.” ~ Peter De Vries When we talk to writers about inspiration, we usually want to know about their ideas. What sparks your stories? Where do your ideas come from? What made you think to use that setting…
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Book Review: The Aroma of Beauty
“Beauty could not rebuild our cities, but it helped to rebuild our humanity and to bring us closer to one another. Beauty could not bring back family and friends, but it helped us weep for them, remember them, and celebrate them,” Aroma of Beauty, pp.138 What is the role of art in the midst of a…
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People in A Story: How Book Characters Teach Us to Love Well
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America Loving characters…