What Santa Had to Say About Writing His Book By Frank Ball Twas six weeks till the deadline, when all through the house, My computer was working with…
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In 2012, the Northern Ireland Tourist Board spread a wonderful message about why there’s joy in the world. It’s not a flight on Santa’s sleigh, but it is all about…
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Bestselling authors may write great paragraphs, but we can learn ways to make them even better. Here’s a great paragraph from Intensity by Dean Koontz: As he drives, he eats…
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Since the early 1900s, the Carol of the Bells has been a popular song during the Christmas season. Given its popularity, we shouldn’t be surprised to see our Muppet friends…
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We naturally relate to symmetrical patterns. This is true, not only in our visual, graphic world, but also in the way we structure sentences. What’s the difference between “bread and…
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Each morning Frank Ball reads a few comic strips to stir his creative thinking. In just a few frames, many of them tell an interesting story with beginning, middle, and…
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Several writer’s group members have expressed interest in Frank’s daily practice of taking a paragraph from a bestselling novel and striving to make it better. So maybe we should explain…
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Whether butler, baker, or biscuit maker, we have talent. If we can talk, we can write. And if we’re working for the Lord, we can please someone who is even…
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Copying another writer’s work is called plagiarism. Besides the practice being illegal, a violation of copyright law, it’s impractical, because it presents you as someone other than who you really…
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