Most people have heard this truth: God loved the world enough to send his only son so everyone who believes in him won’t die but will live forever (John 3:16).…
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How about some tasty Belgian chocolate? Andrew Farrugia used almost 700 hours of labor and 3,000 pounds of chocolate to sculpt a train 112 feet long, setting a new Guinness…
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Literary agent Donald Maass says “setup” always drags and should be left out. “Generally speaking,” he says, “it is best to start with action, cut backstory, avoid aftermath, limit description,…
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Without written form and rules, languages have evolved rapidly from one generation to the next. Because of all its written rules we learned in school, English has remained relatively constant…
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Jack was developing a new business system—originally estimated to take him 1,000 hours. Every weekday, he arrived at the office early and left late. He worked on most Saturdays. He…
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>One thing leads to another. Since that’s characteristic of life, it should be characteristic of our storytelling. A character wants something but faces obstacles of increasing plight—a series of actions…
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Many authors and most readers don’t understand the important distinctions between “which,” “who,” and “that.” Now you can be better writer, avoid confusing readers, and boast of being smarter than…
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Frank Ball used to collect stamps, coins, and rocks. Now he’s a collector of words with unexpected meanings, which he calls “daffynitions.” Here are five that were posted recently: Agnostic…
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Expressing judgment of an emotion deprives readers from the experience of seeing, hearing, and feeling what was going on—so they can judge for themselves. We make them observers rather than…
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Writing sprinkled with humor is wonderful medicine, for pleasant words are like honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones (Proverbs 16:24). We know God has a sense…
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