Ask the Author: Chris Manion
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Chris Manion
I lost a diamond tennis bracelet in a rental car. I called the rental car company but it was reportedly not recovered. Who found it? Was it given away as a gift to someone or kept? Would it ever circle back to the owner or begin a life of being passed along through several generations? What stories could it tell of the lives it touched?
Chris Manion
Dust by Eva Marie Everson,
Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom,
Any of Sarah Dunant's books starting with Blood and Beauty:
The Borgias,
Mary Oliver's Long Life: Essays,
Progress and Poverty by Henry George,
The Siege by Ismail Kadare and David Bellos,
American Dirt,
To Forgive, Divine
Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom,
Any of Sarah Dunant's books starting with Blood and Beauty:
The Borgias,
Mary Oliver's Long Life: Essays,
Progress and Poverty by Henry George,
The Siege by Ismail Kadare and David Bellos,
American Dirt,
To Forgive, Divine
Chris Manion
A bio about St. John Capestran. Never heard of him before.
Chris Manion
First, I read. That inspires me the most.
How does one learn to sing as they work? Writing comes naturally to me the way some people like to tinker with cars and others want to groom animals or grow flowers and edibles. It's akin to the way I think. And it's work. I've learned to love the editing process, perhaps even more than the writing itself.
Creative energies need to vent themselves. Mine does so in words and music. I love the real beauty in a well-crafted sentence. I love beauty. I love creating. It is its own reward.
How does one learn to sing as they work? Writing comes naturally to me the way some people like to tinker with cars and others want to groom animals or grow flowers and edibles. It's akin to the way I think. And it's work. I've learned to love the editing process, perhaps even more than the writing itself.
Creative energies need to vent themselves. Mine does so in words and music. I love the real beauty in a well-crafted sentence. I love beauty. I love creating. It is its own reward.
Chris Manion
The same advice I got: read a lot, read some more; and write as often as you can. Oh, and edit, edit, edit. Then edit some more. Eventually, you find your voice. That's when the fun really begins!
Chris Manion
What I love best about being a writer is the freedom to use my God-given talents to play with words the way painters play with paint, singers and musicians play with notes, and bakers play with dough. It's a wild and lush landscape to explore, with endless paths to walk and views to ponder. When I collect enough gorgeous branches, flowers, and stems of interesting leaves, I get to present a bouquet to my readers. It doesn't get much better than that.
Chris Manion
I honestly don't know that I've experienced this. I have so many things that interest me, so many ways I see God's hand and path and glory in all of life that surrounds me, that I never find myself short on subject matter about which I can write.
I keep an Inspiration file folder filled with articles, cartoons, notes from books I've read, meditations and scripture that speaks to me in the off chance I might need something to jump start a blog post or article, but so far, I really haven't had to use it.
I keep an Inspiration file folder filled with articles, cartoons, notes from books I've read, meditations and scripture that speaks to me in the off chance I might need something to jump start a blog post or article, but so far, I really haven't had to use it.
Chris Manion
A Study Guide for my memoir, editing my third children's book, an historical novel, a Christian Living devotional. I'm excited about them all!
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