Thursday, July 26, 2007

Langston Hughes - Salvation

Langston Ted Hughes makes a past experience into a true to life play of guilt, deception, and grief, in "Salvation." He uncovers the narrative of how he was forced into receiving Jesus by his peers, relatives, and preacher. Helpless and alone, he fights against overpowering odds. After a long-winded discourse the children of the fold are asked to come up up forward and accept Jesus.

Instead of moving forward, Langston waits for the Godhead to come to him. When nil happens, Langston travels forward anyway just to delight his auntie and the church. In the end be is not only grief-stricken, but have Lost all belief in God.

Group pressure level forced Langston into doing something that was totally against his good judgment. When Langston's friend Westley went forward the pressure level increased twofold. Not only was he exposed to the persuasion of the church, but he realized that if Westley did it, it might be admissible. A similar state of affairs might be Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

When Adam saw that Eve had taken of the fruit and was unharmed, he too ate of the tree of knowledge. Westley certainly hadn't been struck dead, so why not give in to salvage additional trouble? If he didn't acquire saved everyone would turn against him. In a sense the fold became his Supreme Being because they pushed him into going to the platform.

The writer additions the regard of the reader by telling the narrative from his point of position and in his ain voice. He states the narrative truthfully as accurately as he can retrieve it.

The highly graphic verbal descriptions of the church, the preacher, and his aunt, aid maintain the impulse of the narrative rolling. Langston supplies the chief fictional character an audience and the reader a spot of human excitement. He recreates the true play of facing an opponent military unit without any outside help.

Although Langston Ted Hughes believed in the world of Jesus, he was deceivingly forced into doing something completely against his will. He fooled everyone by making an insincere decision. His emotions and feelings come up out in the end of the story. Langston could hear himself thinking during the ordeal and he knew that he was alone. His concluding determination was based on what was sufficient for the congregation, not himself.

"Salvation" is an amazing portraiture of what true redemption is all about. It is a bosom decision, not just walking down an aisle. It was Keith Green, the Gospels Artist, who once said: "Going to Christian church doesn't make you a Christian, anymore than going to McDonald's make you a hamburger." Endquote!

It is my sincere desire that those who don't cognize the Godhead who read "Salvation" may understand what it really states in I Toilet 1:9: If we confess with our oral cavity Jesus Of Nazareth as Lord, and believe in our bosom that Supreme Being raised him from the dead, we shall be saved."

Notice, confession is from belief in the heart, not out of equal pressure level or entry to what everyone else desires you to do. I sincerely believe "Salvation" by Langston Ted Hughes do those who have got merely walked down an aisle, not because they wanted to happen Jesus, believe twice.

When one truly happens Christ, it'll be from the heart, not from anything else...

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Thursday, June 07, 2007

Quick And Easy Way To Produce Ebooks

Today I'm going to show you how to create a hot selling eBook in one day. And get this, you'll only have to write five paragraphs. Anyone on the planet can do that. So without further ado let's get started.

Decide on Your eBook Topic

The first step is to have it clear in your mind what subject you want your ebook to be on. If you are not sure as to the subject then have a read of my article on finding niche markets.

Now what we're going to do is use other peoples' hard work to create our very own unique eBook. Sounds too good to be true doesn't it. However this is a very real opportunity that the top gun ebook publishers use time and time again to create products in lightning quick time.

We're going to use the content from the best of them to create ebooks. You see web site owners write articles and submit them to article directories so that they get free publicity for their sites. At the end of each article is a link back to their web site with a bit of information about their site for example. These site owners want people to take that article and market it to people so they get visitors to their site without spending a dime on marketing. This is perfect for savvy entrepreneurs just like you.

You see what we can do at go articles.com is type in a niche in the search bar at the top right (make sure it's on "article content" rather than search by author). Type in your niche market. So for example type in "dogs". You'll get thousands of result related to what you have searched for. Now what I want you to do is simply go through the results finding at least seventy quality articles related to the dog market and copy and paste them into word or some kind of word processing application.

As I've said make sure they are quality articles. If you create an ebook using rubbish you'll just get a sky high refund rate and it will all be a pointless exercise. Do it right from the off and you'll set yourself up for success.

If you can, try and tie all the articles together in one sub niche. For example a sub niche of dogs might be training your dog. So you could find articles on stopping your dog from barking at night, toilet training that kind of thing. Use a bit of imagination when using this method.

Email Article Authors

You don't want to use any articles without the author's permission. Remember the majority of articles will have been submitted so the author can get visitors to their site without spending a dime. However you never want to breach any copyright laws. To avoid this email the authors of each article. Explain to them that you are creating an ebook aimed at their niche market. You'd love to include their article in your book and you'll include a link back to their site and information about them. Also ask them if they have any other articles you could include.

You can expect around seventy percent of authors you contact to be delighted you're going to include their article in your book. Then all you need to do is discard the articles from authors who you haven't heard from or who won't let you use their article.

Put the articles in an order that makes sense and create a contents page. Use the titles of the articles as contents topics. You could even create chapters aimed at solving certain problems people in your niche have. All articles would make up separate chapters.

Add a title and a small copyright section so people know that this product is unique to you and your business. Also point out that people don't have the rights to resell it.

Finally write a short introduction and conclusion. These only need to be a few paragraphs each. Tell people what they can expect to learn and make sure you sign off using your name. Instantly you will establish yourself as an expert. You can also link to your back end products at the end of the book to increase your sales.

Finally you need to turn it into an ebook to sell. Don't worry it won't cost you a dime. Once downloaded all you need to do is in your word software hit "file" and then "print" and then select "primo PDF" as your printer. Voila. You've just created an ebook using other people's hard work. This whole process can be done in just a few hours. Obviously you may need to wait a day or two for the article authors to get back to you but apart from that you're all set! Anyone can use this method to create more ebooks than you'd ever be able to sell.

That's a great method right?

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Fiction - Easing Exposition into a Story

Exposition is the descriptive material that sets a tone to a piece of writing and introduces the background, the characters, and other facts. Exposition is better used in non-fiction, but the need for it can be crucial to the success of a story also.

Exposition in fiction contains necessary elements like time, setting, and background for the story. More than the exposition alone, what is inside it or the information in it is what helps the plot to take off.

A century ago, many novels included long expository pages. Authors like Henry James used long expository passages and narratives without dialogue. In contrast, what is expected from fiction writers of today is continuous energy. Readers expect their interests held on every sentence and section of a story.

In a recent book review, an experienced reviewer said, "Too much exposition mars first half of an otherwise engaging read." In the stage play Urine Town a girl is stopped from telling too much, since "Nothing can kill a show like too much exposition."
Expositions are sometimes calls info dumps, especially if they are offered in extended mind-numbing paragraphs. Most readers skip them and read the story's action and dialogue, or they drop reading the story altogether.

Still, some narration and exposition can still be very important to the modern-day story, as in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Could Dan Brown have entered his narrative passages in an easier-to-swallow form? Possibly, but then he would have to write three or four books instead of one, and his readers would not be able to grasp the significance of the backstory in The Da Vinci Code.

On the other hand, what is written as exposition can be incorporated into the story's action and dialogue, most of the time. When exposition becomes awkward by delaying the action in the present and it doesn't advance the plot and yet the information in it is important to introduce a scene or paint a picture, it is better if it is kept confined to a few sentences.

Let's say a sunset is important to explain a certain mood. A writer may write as exposition: As the sun set, the pale blue sky turned into a grey threatening smoke. The fire of the sun, raging against departure, left the entire horizon in its reddish hue while the rest of the world was getting immersed in shadows. The birds flew back to their nests and all was quiet.
Or the writer might incorporate the same exposition into the action of the story as: Simone hurried inside the house when the sun set, turning the pale blue sky into a grey threatening smoke.
"Hi, Peter," she called as she rushed through the living room to close an open window. The world was getting immersed in shadows while the sun raged against retreat and left a reddish hue on the horizon. "Where did you disappear, Peter?" Simone called out loud. The birds had flown back to their nests and all was quiet, but where was Peter?

Interior monologue is another way to blend the exposition into the story. Using the same exposition, the writer may use the interior monologue as: Simone made a tent with her fingertips and gazed at the setting sun that had already turned the sky into a grey threatening smoke. Did Peter need to disappear, too? On the horizon the sun was raging against retreat leaving the entire horizon in its reddish hue. Peter had shown no rage whatsoever. Soon the birds would flow back to their nests and all would be quiet, but she would continue missing Peter.

Another method of putting exposition into a story is by way of one character lecturing another one, as Sherlock Holmes did when he explained his mode of crime solving, starting with, "Elementary, my dear Watson…" In some brusquely written work, villains make speeches about their actions and plans to helpless victims. Maybe because of that, these speeches are called idiot lectures.

Whether exposition is blended into the action of the story or is used alone, the trick is to incorporate it wisely inside the story and not bore the reader with long tedious passages.

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