tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28630195139636849012024-03-05T21:31:23.788-08:00Word90&9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03932592504786294671noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-55013187163578733342012-07-17T22:59:00.000-07:002012-07-17T22:59:00.644-07:00Literary vs. GenreGreat little article in the New Yorker on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/05/28/120528crat_atlarge_krystal">famous "literary" authors </a>who loved reading mysteries & other "genre" material. Great (respectful) angles on how each offers great reading, if not different expectations.kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-38047451732246275632012-07-04T09:27:00.000-07:002012-07-04T09:27:00.608-07:00Currently Reading: The Book Thief...by Marcus Zusak with my 9th grader. It's about an orphan girl trying to survive Nazi Germany who steals books (from burning pyres, etc) whenever she can so her soul can survive. It's paced well, not especially quick, though the language is beautiful & feels original.<br />
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<br />kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-24303931577751627912012-05-09T01:12:00.000-07:002012-05-09T11:12:36.913-07:00New Study: Fictional Characters Affect Real LifeRead a book, vote on election day! That's what <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/study-fictional-characters-can-influence-real-life-actions_b51251">a new study</a> shows from the Ohio State University.kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-11744039837010636312012-05-07T19:00:00.000-07:002012-05-07T19:00:00.912-07:00Because Mark Twain Said So, That's Why!<br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white;">Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” — Mark Twain</span></span><br />
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A quote by Mark Twain is almost obligatory on a lit blog.kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-18014485469874096132012-05-04T08:08:00.000-07:002012-05-04T08:08:00.487-07:00Writing as Belief<br />
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<span style="background-color: purple;">So what does your writing say you believe?</span></div>kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-61556128748635753582012-05-03T09:06:00.000-07:002012-05-03T09:06:00.574-07:00The Big Question About: MiseryHave you ever been so miserable you <i>had</i> to write?<br />
<br />It didn't have to be good or long or deep. It wasn't necessarily as an escape from reality. You just had to create something to prove to yourself that something positive could be made out of your misery. As if creation itself was an answer.<br />
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Have you ever been so miserable you <i>had</i> to write?kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-773504613581860992012-05-02T06:58:00.000-07:002012-05-02T20:06:01.095-07:00The Calling to Create ArtA <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/how-many-hours-do-you-spend-writing_b50604">rambling video</a> about one author's need to write.<br />
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For 10,000 hours.<br />
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Before he--or anyone else--can <strike><span style="color: red;">be any good</span></strike> master the craft.<br />
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What do you think?kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-41246550502184359982012-05-01T06:55:00.000-07:002012-05-01T06:55:00.498-07:00Mystery Winners AnnouncedThe annual Edgar awards were unveiled over the weekend, giving mystery books for all audiences tappropriate prizes. Probably the most prestigious of mystery awards, the Edgar winners are listed <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/2012-edgar-award-winners-revealed_b50829">here</a>, with some quotes from winners <a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/894373-312/edgar_awards_for_best_mystery.html.csp">here</a> (and a great pick-up line if you think a single mystery writer is especially hot--"What's your favorite way to kill people?"kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-44587235942798220872012-04-30T06:45:00.000-07:002012-04-30T06:45:00.858-07:00Storytellers or Authors?<br />
"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs." -Max Beerbohm<br />
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Is it fair to say that most authors who crank out a book every year (or more) are mediocrities and our best authors only deliver a book once every few years? Or are those annual authors actually "storytellers" who fill our mind with wonder over a short period, while "authors" feed our soul forever?kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-45192140757064029752012-04-27T08:53:00.000-07:002012-04-27T08:53:11.398-07:00Awful Person, Brilliant Artist: On Art<br />
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." -Pablo Picasso<br />
<br />kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-38766749288414408232012-04-26T08:35:00.000-07:002012-04-26T08:35:00.701-07:00Got a book you need to publicize? Here are great instructions on how to create your own "<a href="http://www.glimmertrain.com/b38amend.html">Do It Yourself Book Tour</a>." The source is "Writer's Ask," a solid source of writing insight culled from endless interviews with published, often famous, writers that is sorted by topic. All of my copies are highlighted all over.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.glimmertrain.com/writersask.html">Writer's Ask</a>" is worth subscribing to if you want to deepen your writing skillset.kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-26119342701637911562012-04-25T08:22:00.000-07:002012-04-25T08:22:03.239-07:00Put Yourself in the Classics!Want to be the one falling in love with Mr. Darcy? Want to have your nephew duel wits with Long John Silver? Want to solve that dastardly murder with that mysterious Baskerville hound? For a unique gift, put yourself and your family or friends <a href="http://www.ustarnovels.com/personalised-classic-novels/">into a classic novel</a>!<br />
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It sounds like a great gift to me.kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-39394515864901042012012-04-23T07:24:00.000-07:002012-04-23T07:24:00.934-07:00Science Says "Read Fiction!"Mysteriously, reading somehow rewires the brain into something better the more you read. This is one of the reasons to mourn the lack of reading in today's society. As the <i>New York Times</i> illuminates in a synopsis of neuroscience considering, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all">Your Brain on Fiction</a>." For instance:<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">". . . </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective. This relationship persisted even after the researchers accounted for the possibility that more empathetic individuals might prefer reading novels. A 2010 study by Dr. Mar found a similar result in preschool-age children: the more stories they had read to them, the keener their theory of mind . . ."</span></span></div>kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-86118435306699396802012-04-20T06:25:00.000-07:002012-04-20T06:25:01.182-07:00A Fork on the PageStrangeness. Have you ever been writing a story you know you're making progress on and keep getting nagged with solid ideas for <i>another</i> story? Sometimes this happens to me when I'm stuck in the primary story or I'm scared (perhaps not even admitting the fear to myself) where to go next, so it's easier to pursue another (underdeveloped) story where everything is still in the infatuation stage of perfection. That make sense to me.<br />
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At present I'm working through a fun, extended scene of a first date where romantic magic & mischief intertwine -- and I'm being cascaded with whole swaths of dialogue & character insights & interesting settings from a (probable) short story. It's maddening, because it keeps drawing me away from my primary. It's also maddening because -- forgive my self-confidence here -- a lot of these distractions are pretty solid and some of it's quite good.<br />
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I have too many distractions from writing as it is. Getting distracted by my own imagination is unbearable!kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-67416217892753437332012-04-18T08:54:00.000-07:002012-04-18T08:54:00.850-07:00Food for Thought: Portraying Motives<div>
The value of reading cultural criticism is you can learn to perfect your craft by reading the criticism of others. From <i><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/03/mad-men-returns.html#ixzz1qFvJlTwg">The New Yorker</a></i>:</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 11pt;">"It’s <i>Mad Men</i>’s neatest trick: By letting a character’s motives bubble beneath
behavior, rarely expressed out loud, the show has maintained an air of
perverse, contradictory realism. Story developments that seem out of the blue
make sense only in retrospect, sometimes years down the line."</span></span>kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-32659638962062102342012-04-17T10:10:00.000-07:002012-04-17T10:10:00.183-07:00Steven Johnson: What is the Space for Creativity?In his Ted Talk, Steven Johnson offers some fascinating insights into how certain spaces encourage creativity--and better ideas. After all, as he says, an idea is a network, not a single thing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 11pt;">"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of
human life." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-40888104249963175222012-04-13T06:23:00.000-07:002012-04-13T06:23:00.624-07:00The "Mysterious Strengths" of the Novel<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Svw3xa3gN6g/T38zWi1GRCI/AAAAAAAABMY/p7_Aa0GOMmU/s1600/whartonportrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Svw3xa3gN6g/T38zWi1GRCI/AAAAAAAABMY/p7_Aa0GOMmU/s320/whartonportrait.jpg" width="308" /></a>One great reason to read literary criticism is that often the writer fills you in on a specific author, their major works, and then adds some nifty insights into the writing process as well. Jonathan Franzen does this in the <i><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/02/13/120213fa_fact_franzen">New Yorker</a> </i>(Febraury 13 & 20, 2012 edition) on Edith Wharton. It's not the best criticism/literary article I've ever read, but there are some great insights on the novel and fiction writing, for instance:<br />
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"One of the mysterious strengths of the novel as an art form, from Balzac forward, is how readily readers connect with the financial anxieties of fictional characters . . . Money, in novels, is such a potent reality principle that the need for it can override even our wish for a character to live happily ever after, and Wharton, throughout the book (<i>The House of Mirth</i>), applies the principle with characteristic relentlessness, tightening the financial screws on Lily as if the author were in league with nature at its most unforgiving."<br />
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">And this:</span></b><br />
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<br />kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-83358565360781818822012-04-12T09:00:00.000-07:002012-04-12T09:00:07.737-07:00Top 100 Fantasy & Sci Fi NovelsLet's give NPR credit for revealing a fascinating list of high brow and low brow titles that almost everyone has to admire. If you're mulling over your Summer Reading List, this is <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books">a good place</a> to start.kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-14401904492028404592012-04-11T07:14:00.000-07:002012-04-11T07:14:00.466-07:00Hemingway: Author or Brand?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Slate</i> magazine ran a great piece (with new angles and insights, who would've thought it possible?) on Papa. Solid criticism like this:<br />
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<span style="color: red;">“His work of this
period connects with our animal habits of consciousness. And the struggle it
brings to the foreground is the struggle to make sense of—to find a line of
narrative through—this disordered experience. Hemingway’s insight was to
understand that this struggle was not just a literary one. It’s a fundamental
part of how people themselves perceive and try to make sense of the world.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Definitely <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/assessment/2012/03/ernest_hemingway_how_the_great_american_novelist_became_the_literary_equivalent_of_the_nike_swoosh_.single.html">worth your time</a>.<br />
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Also, Hemingway does a book trailer - and tells us how much profit he'll be receiving out of the $3 per book price:<br />
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Chip Kidd, the preeminent book designer in the business today, offers his thought on how to entice people to buy the books he designs at a recent TED talk. A fascinating take on Jurassic Park, Haruki Murakami, and two old movie stars, among others. <br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">“How Great is our God” is the song that we sing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">As we bring this thing call worshiping as our praises wing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">No word evades when He invades the place to taste our praise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">But how much do we really know about God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">We nod in response to the preacher’s rod,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">And when he makes a good point we all applaud!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">But how great is our God? That’s the question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Well, first I should mention His suspension<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Of His condemnation for us in our sinful station;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">We’re free from sin, but death still has us on probation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Did we miss the orientation on what it means to praise Him?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Not just words, a lifestyle should be our life’s ovation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Secondly His creation of us with the formation of our brains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">To generate great information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">With freedom to praise Him without fear of segregation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">God is good to us. He gave food to us, He’s never rude to us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">And He took the punishment due to us on Himself in lieu of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">God is always true to us, but all this truth shouldn’t be new to
us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Here’s the point, let me clarify, because if I don’t really try<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">To tell you why we should shout His praises out to the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Then you will listen and maybe cry, but let these words pass on by
continuing to fly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Blind, not knowing why we praise Adonai the most high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">So let’s take an example from the seraphims in the praises that we
share for Him,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Singing “Holy!” worshiping Him, just like we worship in psalms and
hymns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Check it out in Isaiah 6 and once again in Revelation 4:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">We can see them singing “Holy!” just because He’s the eternal
LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Psalms 7 verse 17, we see a command to praise the king<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Just because of His righteousness, not because He gives us things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">The Maker of all the universe, the Creator of everything on earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Is a righteous, holy God Who was manifest in a virgin birth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">To save us from death’s curse; that’s what gives His name worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">We owe Him, it’s not reversed; He beat sin to remove the curse;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">We should’ve died, we deserved a hearse, but He stretched His arms
wide to save the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">That’s the God that I praise; Do understand now why I raise my
hands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">And say “Worthy is the Lamb!” I can’t stay still, I have to stand
and worship the great <i>Jehovah-Olam</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">Everlasting God, He stays the same. Do you comprehend now why I
praise His name?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">So because of Christ’s purchase of my worthlessness and
purposelessness;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">In return I got assurance of an eternal insurance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">So I worship to honor and give furtherance to His holy purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, serif;">And my actions every Sunday service are not just a show, like a
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="color: purple;">But a response to Christ goodness; that’s why I worship.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, serif;"><i>Submitted by college student Johnnie Peyton.</i></span></div>kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-61028618224024221862012-04-05T21:21:00.002-07:002012-04-05T21:23:01.925-07:00Have You Entered the Kill Zone?If you're looking for a solid blog for thriller and mystery writers, you can't do much better than <i><a href="http://www.killzoneauthors.blogspot.com/">The Kill Zone</a>, </i>which features James Scott Bell, Nancy Cohen, Kathleen Pickering, Joe Moore, and several others.kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863019513963684901.post-76044599832858401322012-04-01T21:45:00.000-07:002012-04-01T21:45:00.485-07:00Flash Mob? No, a Book Mob!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance is reinventing the (now dated) Flash Mob concept by hosting a Book Mob on World Book Night, April 23, 2012. Yep, expect a group of readers to appear beneath the Arch that day with a favorite book.<br />
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What a great way to have fun and encourage reading! More details <a href="http://www.left-bank.com/event/world-book-night-read-mob">here</a>.</div>kdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01452854081833242877noreply@blogger.com0