Here's what it is like to read Donald Miller: I've heard all this stuff before, but it was alway spoken so politely that I could keep my umbrella up and my raincoat buttoned, but when Donald Miller says it, I am suddenly chilled to the bone and soaked clear through.
Every year, students in APU's Freshman writing program submit essays and compete in three catagories: best personal essay, best argument, and best research paper. APU welcomed more than a thousand new students this year. Competition? Yea, more than a little.
I'm so proud that one of my students took first place in the personal essay catagory and [...]
I love Eric Carle, the author and artist behind classic children's books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I stumbled across his blog and really like these thoughts about creativity, time, seeds, and hatchlings:
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The Seed that Grows into a Story
Sometimes ideas for my books seem to burst into bloom. But often the seed of the idea [...]
My friend and colleague Joseph Bentz is an incredibly talented writer. He just did an online interview with Patricia Hickman, and in it, he mentions that when I have projects that are "on hold," I file them "under the chicken." I actually have a plastic inbox for these items, and I actually have a large ceramic [...]
I spent the weekend at Loscon, a local science fiction convention of a thousand or so members. One of the highlights was talking with David Gerrold, author of The Martian Child, The Man Who Folded Himself, and Star Trek: The Trouble With Tribbles.
I told David how much I enjoyed Martian Child, a novel that tells [...]