Monday, October 18, 2010

Ready Writers

As you may have gathered by now, I consider myself something of a writer.  I maintain a separate blog for my writing persona, David Seven. 

In fact, one of the regular series on this blog, and the other is one called Faith and Writing, wherein I explore the connection between my faith, and my writing.  For a more complete explanation of why I consider my faith to be tied-up with my writing, might I suggest this post.

Well, about a year ago I was attending a quite day, and doing some meditation on Psalm 45, when I came across verse 1.

My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

bible-studying-pen-papgerAnd that verse kind of stopped me. Am I being a ready writer?  I know in the context it is referring to reciting verses of praise, but it got me thinking about how I use my pen.

Am I a ready writer?  Am I ready to use my pen to praise my King?

So I decided to register a new blog, called Ready Writer.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it yet, but I decided to register it anyway. 

Except that I couldn’t.  The name was already taken. (By someone who isn’t even using it!!)  Then, while fiddling with other names, I found that Ready Writers was not taken yet.  So I registered that as a blog. 

And then I realised why I was supposed to set up a different blog; because it wasn’t going to be just mine.  I see it as a blog of some sort with many ready writers using their pens to glorify their King.

But I don’t know exactly how it is going to work. 
Am I going to use it like a Christian writing journal and ask for submissions? 
Am I going to do (daily/weekly) writing prompts and encourage writers to post on the blog? 
Am I going to do a combination of both?

Enquiring minds want to know.

What do you think?  Drop me a line, and tell me how you think I should do this thing.

Thank you.

Oh, yes.  The blog is on WordPress, and can be found here.

9 comments:

  1. You could take submissions? When I first thought the the title, I imagined a blog with posts about all sorts of topics, but all tying in to praising and serving.

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  2. I don't know the answers to your questions ... I just know I have longed loved that verse ...

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  3. Why does your feed force the font color to white? It didn't use to do this, but now your writing is very faint against the light background that I have set up.

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  4. Sorry Karina. That was me. I changed the font to white because it looked better on my blog. The grey was a little too "dirty" for me, and the white makes a nice contrast with the black background.

    I didn't think about how it might be a problem in readers. I'll stop doing it.

    Thanks for the feedback.

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  5. I think a combination of the two would be good.

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  6. I love the idea of submissions or even just answers to the prompt in the comments.

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  7. Submissions, journal, however and whatever will glorify Him, the One Who gives us words.

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  8. Whichever way you go, it'll be fun.

    And I love that verse.

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