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Posted on May 28th, 2008 in Odessa

The coming weeks we’ll give you some helpful material on “The Art of Writing”.

Meanwhile: write, write, write…

The Process of Creative Writing.
Some Thoughts.

The simplistic and therefore doubtlessly most effective way of working in the field of philology, theology, and evangelism would be to always have some paper and pen at hand. Only later it should be typed in the computer. Spiritual creativity could abundantly blossom and bring fruit in entirely focusing on the very matter, without distracting electronics and its permanent demands.

Reflecting, meditating, praying, and writing belong together; they are all four parts of the one creative human process. Would you meditate or pray on a laptop?

Somehow, not entirely, the above described process also includes the reading and working with books and print-outs. Electronical text has a lot of proven advantages compared to print: active hyperlinks, in-text comments from readers, compactness. But do you really need thousands of pages at hand while you are in the very process of thinking and praying something “through”? Three or four books could always be at hand while you would read a lecture, take part in a debate, or simply travel. The second step comes later: editing, proof-reading, finalizing, and publishing results on the Internet. Ben, May 31, 2008, Odessa.