A deep well of practical and inspirational wisdom for every Christian writer Imagine you have the chance to spend an hour or so alone with a couple of well-published writers. Imagine they share with you secrets of their art, and reveal how their art relates to their faith. This is the experience awaiting you with the twenty-two authors of this book.
In A Syllable of Water, some of today's leading writers of faith reflect on all aspects of the writing vocation and process in ways that will inform and inspire.
Philip Yancey, Richard Foster, Luci Shaw, and others discuss everything from the tools of a writer to the ways that they spend their time when they are not writing.
Editors such as John Wilson (Books & Culture) and American Book Award-winning Cherokee poet, Diane Glancy, reflect on the value of the editor-writer conversation, as well as the power of revision.
And other writers of stature including Doris Betts, John Leax, Erin McGraw, Harold Fickett, Virginia Stem Owens, Jeanne Murray Walker, Scott Cairns, and Eugene H. Peterson offer sage advice on how to approach nearly every imaginable genre from fiction and nonfiction to memoir, poetry, and translation.
In 1986, the Chrysostom Society was formed in the hopes of 'establishing a National Guild of Professional Writers' whose literary efforts flowed out of a Christian worldview. That's as good an introduction as any to this collection of essays on the writing life, faith being the point of departure and the nourishment that keeps these writers writing. All of the contributors are Society members, ranging in background from Roman Catholic and Quaker to Baptist, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Church of God. The range of topics and genres represented are similarly diverse: playwriting, poetry, translation, journal keeping, short story writing, journalism, creative nonfiction, research, writer's block, reading, memoir, and-a personal favorite-an essay by Harold Fickett called 'Gushers and Bleeders: On Getting Started.' Faith may be the coalescing force behind this anthology, but its voices are hardly homogenous. C.S. Lewis once posited that we should value literature because, at our core, we desire 'an enlargement of being.' Quite simply, our 'own eyes are not enough.' Not all of these essays will interest every reader, but these writers offer a good share of insight and encouragement to those who, in faith, feel the call of the writing life. 225 pp.
In 1986, the Chrysostom Society was formed in the hopes of 'establishing a National Guild of Professional Writers' whose literary efforts flowed out of a Christian worldview. That's as good an introduction as any to this collection of essays on the writing life, faith being the point of departure and the nourishment that keeps these writers writing. All of the contributors are Society members, ranging in background from Roman Catholic and Quaker to Baptist, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Church of God. The range of topics and genres represented are similarly diverse: playwriting, poetry, translation, journal keeping, short story writing, journalism, creative nonfiction, research, writer's block, reading, memoir, and-a personal favorite-an essay by Harold Fickett called 'Gushers and Bleeders: On Getting Started.' Faith may be the coalescing force behind this anthology, but its voices are hardly homogenous. C.S. Lewis once posited that we should value literature because, at our core, we desire 'an enlargement of being.' Quite simply, our 'own eyes are not enough.' Not all of these essays will interest every reader, but these writers offer a good share of insight and encouragement to those who, in faith, feel the call of the writing life. 225 pp. Small remainder mark at bottom text block edge.
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