Everyone Writes

1. Everyone Writes

2. Life is a piece of paper white • Whereon each one of us may write his word or two, • And then comes night. • Greatly begin! Though thou have time • But for a line, be that sublime – • Not failure, but low aim, is crime. • James Russell Lowell

3. Where do your ideas come from? • My reading

6. Where do your ideas come from? • My reading • My living

8. Where do your ideas come from? • My reading • My living • My interactions with others

9. How do you tackle the art of revision?

10. How do you tackle the art of revision? It’s never done until it has been revised

11. How do you tackle the art of revision? The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning. Mark Twain

12. How do you tackle the art of revision? I listen to my editors

13. Feedback is the breakfast of champions. Rick Warren

14. My editors

15. How do you handle “less than positive" comments from your readers? ?

16. How do you handle “less than positive" comments from your readers? ? • Listen

17. Listen to our critics! Proverbs 12:15The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.

18. Listen to our critics! Proverbs 19:20Listen to advice and accept discipline,    and at the end you will be counted among the wise.

19. How do you handle “less than positive" comments from your readers? ? • Listen • Look for the kernel of truth.

20. How do you handle less than positive" comments from your readers? ? • Listen • Look for the kernel of truth. • Keep on writing. Stephen King

21. What happens if you get "writer's block"?

22. What happens if you get "writer's block"? Pray

23. What happens if you get "writer's block"? Pray Change my place and my pace

24. What happens if you get "writer's block"? Pray Change my place and my pace Don’t quit

25. How do you know when God is prompting you to write about a specific subject?

26. 5 Things I Have Learned About Writing

27. 1. Writing is hard work

28. Writing is hard work The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis. Art is hard. Selling is hard. Writing is hard. Making a difference is hard.

29. Choosing the right word is hard work The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning. Mark Twain

30. How long does it take to write one post?

31. God honors hard work All hard work brings a profit,    but mere talk leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23 NIV

32. 2. Writing takes discipline

33. 2. Writing takes discipline Isaac Asimov wrote and published more Than 400 (!) books by typing non-stop from 6 am to noon, every day for forty years. (Poke The Box)

34. 2. Writing takes discipline

35. God honors discipline 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;    consider its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander,    no overseer or ruler, 8 yet it stores its provisions in summer    and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6:6-8

36. 3. Writing takes deliberate practice How many hours?

37. 3. Writing takes deliberate practice 10,000 hours

38. 4. Writing is rewarding work

39. 4. Writing is rewarding work

40. 4. Writing is rewarding work

41. 4. Writing is rewarding work

42. 4. Writing is rewarding work

43. Cultural Mandate 28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. Genesis 1:28

44. 5. Write about what you love ?

45. Everyone Writes