Writing

I bought a book on writing articles and getting them published. I’ve always had a secret urge to be a writier (maybe, God-willing, when I retire and get the time). I think people like me who love reading generally like to think of being able to write, and pass on the same effect to others. It’s like listening to music and wanting to be able to play the guitar or keyboard. Whether I’d be any good at it or not is another story.

Here are some articles I came across in Boundless which relate to the subject:

On Writing ( http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001737.cfm )

Writing By The Book ( http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001738.cfm )

Writing Without Inspiration ( http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001739.cfm )

A Moment To Write ( http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001740.cfm )

My other idea in this direction is to re-write an old classic, to make it more accessible. There is a huge treasury of puritan classic christian literature written by some very Godly men, but people are unwilling to tackle them because of the antiquated lanuage – just as they prefer the NIV to the KJV when reading the bible. There are lots of these classics – Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, I have a whole library of stuff I could condense and re-mix for modern consumption. One I am reading at the moment which would be an ideal candidate is “Personal Declension and Revival of Religion In The Soul” by Octavius Winslow. I was thinking of calling the re-mix version “Personal Revival”. The core messages of these books never goes out of fashion because they are fundamentally about the condition of the human soul, and our understanding of God.