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Ray's Blog: August 2011

Right Brain Creative Writing; Left Brian Editing

Photo: Right Brain / Left Brain

One of the most influential books I read when I was an unpublished, aspiring author, was Dorothea Brande's Becoming A Writer. An American author (1893-1948) she identified the "adult / child" or Left and Right Brain aspects of writing. The "child" is the...

Posted at 18:45pm on 30th August 2011

In A Biblical Big Society, Are We All Complicit In Bad Parenting?

I woke this morning having just dreamt of my daughter, whose birthday it is today. In the dream she was aged about nine, and she was running, running, running, through open grassland, ducking beneath bracken fronds high on a hillside, and the sound of her laughter and that of the...

Posted at 09:30am on 17th August 2011

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Edgy Christian Fiction: Books For Summer Reading

If you're anything like me, a book will be essential packing for your summer hols, the perfect partner for a picnic lunch, a bonus for the beach and a relaxing read for bedtime. So here are four book reviews for sensational summer reads, all with a Christian world view that...

Posted at 20:59pm on 15th August 2011

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Online Book Club Discussion Summary: A Time To Live By George Pitcher

Are you in favour of assisted dying? Would you like British law to be amended to allow euthanasia? Or is the risk of abuse to the elderly, disabled and infirm too great a concern?

Most of my real-time Book Club members admitted, when we met on 28th July, 2011, that they'd...

Posted at 11:00am on 3rd August 2011

Online Book Club Questions: A Time To Live By George Pitcher

QUESTIONS How did reading the book either confirm or change your previous opinions about euthanasia / assisted dying? What, in your opinion, were the most persuasive arguments put by the author against...

Posted at 09:29am on 2nd August 2011