Writing

The CBI Clubhouse, Home for Children’s Book Insider Readers posted some good marketing video on their website. Excellent resource. I’m pleased they has done it because I woke up this morning and decided to do the exact same thing and now I don’t have to.  Do look at their page. A wealth of information. 

Also ,here is a great article, which seems to be updated regularly that includes a list of Agents that represent Christian authors.

Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker. Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.

She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
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Had this fun interview with National Noel Writing Month and also Write Nonfiction in November. I hope you like the podcast. It is for my Creative Christian Podcast for my God’s Word Collectible Gift series. You can check out others that we have done on a variety of subjects on the God’s Word website.

An Interview with National Novel Writing Month and Write Nonfiction in November.

Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker. Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.

She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon
Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a listing of all podcasts
Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast

Apparently at the end of the first evening at the writers conference there is something called Bag End Cafe.  Basically this is an open mic event.  Just prior to this event a gentelman arrived looking rather haggled walking with a cane. He had traveled from Oxford.  I was intrigued with his look and it made me want to hold him still and sculpt him.  His name is Malcome Guite and he read this poem.

by Malcolm Guite

My poetry is jamming your machine

It broke the photo-copier, I’m to blame,

With pictures copied from a world unseen.

My poem is in the works–I’m on the scene

We free my verse, and I confess my shame,

My poetry is jamming your machine.

Though you berate me with what might have been,

You stop to read the poem, just the same,

And pictures, copied from a world unseen,

Subvert the icons on your mental screen

And open windows with a whispered name;

My poetry is jamming your machine.

For chosen words can change the things they mean

And set the once-familiar world aflame

With pictures copied from a world unseen

The mental props give way, on which you lean

They world you see will never be the same,

My poetry is jamming your machine

With pictures copied from a world unseen

I love it.

Yes, I got up and read “God’s Will and God’s Way.”

Not many people read, but still it was fun.  Someone read from a recent blog post about being at the CS Lewis event and finding roaches in her room.  She is from Missouri.  We have big bugs in Texas and when you are in the middle of the woods.  Well , it happens.  I hope no one tells her they fly.  Yes, some of our roaches fly. Just the really big ones.  And I don’t know why, but they fly right at you.  It was a rather humorous and touching story of her enduring this for her creative journey.  It was a good night.  I’m wondering if I’ll be up for breakfast or even earlier for prayer. Many great speakers for the Friday schedule.

I’m headed off to bed, thought I must say walking past the fire pits left me with longing. I so want to have a fire.  And there was all of that wood just sitting next to the pit.  DARN YOU BURN BAN!  I am thankful I am an Episcopalian and that at Camp Allen they allow wine.  The merlot was a wonderful surprise to my evening. Even if it is in a coffee cup.

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Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker.

Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.

She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon
Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a listing of all podcasts
Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast

No, it is not really Narnia, just the CS Lewis writers conference. I must say I have never heard CS Lewis quoted so many times in one place in my entire life.

This evening was a Q&A with author Randy Alcorn very interesting. What have I jotted down in my sketchbook?

* We must steal our time away to write, and have to be careful of what we steal our time away from.

* Novelize a Screenplay

* Peaple say to write what you know, but some don’t bother to know anything else.

* When you read the discalimer infront of a novel that says, “any resemblance to real people in this novel… bla bla bla”  It is a lie. Writers steal from real life all of the time

* some people finish a book 6 or 7 times.

* God may have given you the story but he still expects you to labor with it.

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Bridgette Mongeon is a sculptor, writer and educator as well as a public speaker. Her blog can be found at https://creativesculpture.com.

She is also the owner and creator of the God’s Word Collectible Sculpture series
Follow the artists on twitter twitter.com/Sculptorwriter twitter.com/creategodsword
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bridgette.mongeon
Listen to The Creative Christian Podcast or the Inspiration/Generation Podcast Click on Podcast Host Bios for a listing of all podcasts
Listen to the Art and Technology Podcast

I’m at the CS Lewis writers conference. So excited to be here. Let me just thank the person who cancelled and gave me their spot. I’m here by the skin of my teeth.

Before coming I contacted the CS Lewis foundation to see if they would let me donate a piece of my artwork from my God’s Word Collectible gift series for a door prize. They were delighted. This dragon and little boy seems to fit so well into the theme of “Writing Past the Watchful Dragons.” It sits on the registration table waiting for its new home.

I have met so many people this morning. I must say this conference has got to be the best kept secret. More people will be here for the main conference but the writers conference is in its infancy and so we have a lot of the presenters all to ourselves! All of the people at the foundation are incredible. I met Stan Mattson the director of the Foundation and I was impressed with his humbleness and spirit. It must be great to see such a dream come together. I can’t wait to hear more about the university. More on that when I know.

I listened to two talks this morning. One from Lael Arrington on “Creative Elements Nonfiction.” I must say it was a hard choice to make as I had to miss Frank Ball’s “Writing A Captivating Story” and Matt Boyleston “Writing Religious Poetry.”

Here are some sketches in my notes from Lael Arrington ” I don’t want to know what you know, I want to experience what you experience,” “Scene more than summary” ” A Great Deal has been Lost” “Stake worth Fighting for” “Unpack the struggle in your own heart first.” I know those comments won’t mean anything to anyone but me. But they are highlighted for me to revisit.