Archive for April, 2008
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Apr
Posted by John Shore in Adam and Eve: The Day After, Christianity, Misc. Humor, Plays, Writing. Tagged: Adam and Eve, Evil, exile from paradise, Garden of Eden, paradise, playwriting. 33 Comments
Adam: I sure wish we hadn’t eaten that apple. That was dumb. Eve: Really? Ya’ think? Adam: Where are we? Eve: I dunno. I know where we’re NOT. [both together, dreamily]: Paradise. Adam: Paradise! I miss it! I want back there so bad! Eve: Me, too. Maybe if we begged him to let us back [...]
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Apr
Posted by John Shore in Misc. Humor. Tagged: Christianity, Christians, creationism, Evolution. 71 Comments
Ahh, Monday Morning. The sun is rising, the birds are singing–and I’m bitterly angry at Adam, Mr. Former Mud, who said, “Oh, sure, I’ll take a bite of this exact fruit God commanded me not to eat. I’m sure that when he said, ‘Never, ever eat the fruit off this tree,’ what God really meant was, ‘Never, ever eat too [...]
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Apr
Posted by John Shore in Business of/How To, Christianity, Writing. Tagged: Christianity, Creativity, Holy Spirit, inspiration, Writing. 26 Comments
I get a fair amount of questions/input around the dynamic of writing in conjunction with God. So I thought I’d burble out a little sumpin’ sumpin’ about that particular phenomenon. First of all, if you’re trying to do any sort of creative work, do you have any choice but to access and stay with the divine within [...]
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Apr
Posted by John Shore in Business of/How To, Misc. Humor, Writing. Tagged: articles, Creativity, how to write, magazine writing, stories, writers, Writing. 24 Comments
One of my Big Points in yesterday’s More On How to Make A Living Writing was, “If you’re not pretty much an idea factory, you’re never going to make it anyway.” One of my more consistently perspicacious readers, “SamWrites2,” left a comment to that post. “Hi, John!” he wrote. ”You know, I’ve been thinking. I need you. I want to [...]
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Apr
Posted by John Shore in Business of/How To, Writing. Tagged: how to write, journalism, magazine writing, newspapers, stories, writers, Writing. 26 Comments
[A follow-up to this piece is here: How To Write Stories & Articles That Sell. A short while back I did a multi-post series on how to make a living writing; the first of that series, unsurprisingly enough, is How To Make A Living Writing.] Yesterday I spoke before the large and active San Diego Christian [...]
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18
Apr
Posted by John Shore in Hodgepodge-o-Rama. Tagged: athletic shoes, Nike, shoes, sneakers. 15 Comments
For those kind enough to inquire as to what shoes I now favor, below are Shoe Cheesecake Shots of my current athletic shoe wear. (Shoeweare? Shoeware? Showwear? Showbiz? Whatever.) I bought them two months ago, for about $80. I wear them to the gym four or five times a week, which causes me increasing anguish, because [...]
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18
Apr
Posted by John Shore in Autobiography, Psychological Healing, Short Stories, Writing. Tagged: bad mother, depression, dysfunctional family, family life, Fiction, mother, short story. 10 Comments
So lately I’ve been getting much e-love from across the blogosphere. A beautiful thing, indeed. Makes me feel like I have friends. And with your friends, of course, you tend to share things that you wouldn’t normally share with others — personal, painful-type things. Things that happened to you when you were a kid. Speaking [...]
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17
Apr
Posted by John Shore in Uncategorized. 22 Comments
I keep forgetting to communicate this, but this Saturday (4/19) I’m going to be babbling speaking at the San Diego Christian Writer’s Guild “Spring Fellowship Event.” Here’s the scam on the skinny: Spring Brunch/Fellowship April 19, 10:30 am-1:30 pm Faith Chapel Activity Center 9400 Campo Road, Spring Valley, Ca. 91977 Cost: $10.00 per person email for more info: [...]
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16
Apr
Posted by John Shore in Christianity, Gays and Lesbians. Tagged: Christianity, Christians, Christians and gays, eternal damnation, hades, hell, homosexuality, homosexuals and Christianity. 54 Comments
In case anyone’s interested, the impetus behind my writing my last post, ”Homosexuality Isn’t Stealing or Lying …”‘ is this simple truth: If my gay friends, whom my life experience tells me can no sooner stop being gay than I can stop being straight, have to go to hell after they die, then I’m going with them. Too many [...]
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