Novel Preaching: Tips from Top Writers on Crafting Creative Sermons

By Alyce M. McKenzie

Book Overview

In this lively and accessible book, Alyce McKenzie explores how fiction writers approach the task of writing novels: how they develop their ideas, where they find their inspiration, and how they turn the spark of a creative notion into words on paper that will captivate the masses. McKenzie's study shows how preachers can use the same techniques to enhance their own creativity and to turn their ideas into powerful, well crafted sermons. Novel Preaching offers a wealth of advice from successful fiction writers, including Isabelle Allende, Frederick Buechner, Julia Cameron, Annie Dillard, Natalie Goldberg, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Melanie Rae Thorn, and also includes a number of sample sermons from McKenzie herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664233228
• ISBN13: 9780664233228
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"