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 three that were posted recently: Avoidable…
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An apocryphal story tells how Winston Churchill in the World War II era was reprimanded by someone for ending a sentence with a preposition. Back then, we were sticklers for…
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An exquisite novel isn’t the only masterpiece that takes countless hours to build. In 2011 a Japanese advertising agency wanted a giant wooden xylophone built in the Kyushu forest to…
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Suzanne had to decide what perspective she would use in telling her story. She could be the reporter, exercising a God-like position by telling what happened. She began to write:…
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Do you consider yourself a fast or slow thinker? Actually, unless we’ve suffered a brain injury, everybody’s mental processing rate is about the same. Conscious reasoning takes place at forty…
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Mom paused to admire the photos placed neatly in her scrapbook. Each one brought back memories and told an important story. Johnny on his bike—he had learned it was okay…
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Storytelling can be a long, difficult process, containing both pains and pleasures. If we understand the twists and turns of this journey, we won’t be caught by surprise. We won’t…
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Suzanne wanted others to share her victory, but she couldn’t find the right words. Other writers seemed always to say it much better. Thinking she was doing her audience a…
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Perhaps you’ve heard the cliché, “too many irons in the fire.” For most people in our busy world, especially writers, multitasking is a way of life. The only question is,…
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Frank Ball wasn’t brain damaged, so he had the ability. He just didn’t want to write—not until 1993, when he discovered how stories could help people in so many ways.…
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Character is a critical key to becoming a person of quality, and it starts in the home!
