The Thrill of Romance

February 14th or Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays.

Yesterday I was busy doing Free Reads on Amazon Kindle and failed to post on this blog. Simply Delicious is still available for free as an eBook today and tomorrow.

Anyhow, today a friend posted a quote from a Christian author about prayer on Facebook. He mentioned how difficult situations drive us to press in harder, and it is true.

I would like to add this thought to anyone who takes interest in spiritual things and who would like to know God in a personal way:
Prayer is a language of love and relationship. Some of my first experiences with the Holy Spirit were a thrill – meeting and getting to know Him revolutionized my life and my perspective on Christianity. He is much, much more than what man has presumed to know and practice. 

He ‘romanced’ me, so to speak, made the time I spent seeking and trying to understand Him, exciting to the novice that I was then and still am today.
We should remain child-like and should never ‘arrive’ to the point where we know/have experienced everything. That's stale Christianity, the bread of dead religion.

I love to be with Him, and to experience the supernatural presence of God.
His never ending pursuit of me, and His response to me once I pursued Him, has captivated me. It's the Thrill of Romance!  (Link to Sarah Laughed)

A favorite scripture: “You have captured my heart with one glance from your eyes”, SOS 4:9.

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On Reading & Writing: What Do You Enjoy?

Day 3

I recently read a 23-point list entitled How to Write Good. For the most part, I agree where principles of writing technique are concerned. It’s the other part that bothers me. The fun part.

Reading and writing are about what you and I enjoy. We’ve all read books that break so-called Writer’s Rules and are bestsellers, too. To use a cliché, some manuscripts are ‘picture perfect’ as far as the manual of style but the content is a bore. This includes novels and non-fiction works, and it’s not always because of the subject matter or storyline.

It’s the K.I.S.S. style. Keep. It. Simple. Stupid. Plain language has its place. So does poetic expression. Each style has its own beauty. However, it’s stupid not to blend the two or make allowances for each. Some rules are just screaming to be broken.

So again I find myself swimming upstream, writing and liking-horror of horrors-mixed metaphors and purple prose. In romance writing, I find it particularly appealing. I also like and use foreign language phrases. It’s colorful, and to me the writer has done some extra homework. It’s a love of language on my part.

What’s more, writers today create languages for use in their tales. Don’t you love the creativity? The public obviously does. The Lord of the Rings is a tremendous example. Need I say more?

If some classic authors tried to get published today, their work would probably end up in the slush pile, guilty of HTWG. And somewhere out there, some misguided junior editor might even dish out a big sloppy K.I.S.S. to J.R.R. Tolkien. Imagine. 

On Reading & Writing-What Do You Enjoy?

Day 2

Today in the writing industry there are far too many novels that make me feel like I’m reading a television script. I can usually tell what’s coming on the first page in the first few paragraphs. I definitely fit the better-catch-my-interest-fast category of readers for this type of novel.
 
First person, you see, is not my favorite style to read or write. Even if it's well done, I don’t have the patience for the style and it bores me to tears. I'm sure that I could write a first person complete novel draft in a few days because it’s just ‘yakkity-yak’ put down on paper. The “I this and I that” is a real turn-off, the Mr. Yuck of style.

But that’s my opinion. What’s yours?