Ideas are the basis for effective communication and this is an age of information overload. Leona declares, "Ideas are everywhere--free and uncopyrighted. Help yourself!" What an incentive to both experienced and budding writers!
In this book Leona, a gifted author and teacher, shares insights and provides practical guidelines from her vast reservoir of experience. She motivates and assists writers at all levels in setting and attaining high standards for the glory of God.
W. Lee Troup, editorial advisor, writes, "This book reveals the author as a discerning "idea person" you want to know and learn from. She is a good observer and communicates with empathy and impact in her own writing, using apt illustrations from her variegated past. Not willing to stop there, she opens her heart, mind and experience to encourage and instruct others to become bearers of spiritual fruit."
Leona believes that God is the primary source of worthy ideas for the writer who is a Christian, and He is the reason for expressing them. If our ideas come from Him, both through His Word and the created world, our task becomes one of learning how to communicate truth skillfully. Leona helps us do that, as well as find the right market after we have crafted our ideas into a piece of writing.
She begins with an original poem,
The Genesis of Ideation:
In the beginning I had a bright idea,
and the idea bounced around in my head
without form and void
of structure or organization.
Should I let it live or die
will it swim or fly
should it soar? how high?
Was my idea in the beginning with God
created in His mind?
Does His Spirit brood over it
to breathe life?
Or did it arise from my own notion
a product of my conception or emotion?
Is it simply my ephemeral opinion
inclination or speculation?
Should I tenderly nurture it
or jettison it to the circular file?
Is it worthy of marketing?
Will an editor smile
or exclaim with a frown
"Not worth my while!"
Lord, give me discernment!
Available in paperback $6.95
ISBN 1-889283-00-2
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