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Fred Hurr: Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:40 AM
“Well I believe you mate because I had a similar experience when I was young!” The third guy said nothing but just smiled. “Tell us about it.” “It was just as you said except I kept feeding it all kinds of stuff. I even spent my pocket money and went down to the butchers every Saturday morning and bought a bagful of cheap red meat. I was scared of it so I used to open the door a crack and throw it in to the dragon. Outside I could hear it eating the raw meat really hungrily and in seconds there was silence and I knew it had eaten the lot. |
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Fred Hurr: Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:20 PM
 Part 1 There were these three guys sitting in the pub, old friends, having a pint when one said “What was the worst thing that ever happened to you as a child?” One of the friends spoke up and told this story. “I think I was about six when my Mum and Dad moved house. The house belonged to my Granddad who’d died. Well it was a big old dusty house with loads of rooms and even a cellar. I was exploring the rooms when I saw a door off the ground floor hall. Opening it I saw a long flight of stairs going down. |
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Fred Hurr: Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:02 AM
What is this? The first page of a newpiece of writing that floated into my head in the early hours today. I have written so many first pages of novels that never got finished that once in a desperate moment to get published I thought I would put them altogether and make a book out of them and call it simply ‘FirstPages’. What is this first page?Well it could be as GK Chesterton once said “The finest book I never wrote.” *** The day was lost. Even in the morning in the broad golden sunlight something good, almost imperceptibly,was slipping away from me. |
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Fred Hurr: Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:17 PM
'Whatever we do for a living there is always something that has to be protected so that we can carry on doing it without interruption. I read about a famous philosopher who decided at a young age to protect his mind because he knew that it was his greatest asset as a thinking man. So he never touched drugs or alcohol all his life. I heard just yesterday that a professional singer has to spend a lot of time protecting their voice, their money earner. As an author I too have to protect and look after my body and yes of coursed my brain is needed but sitting at a PC all day can cause serious back problems at times. |
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Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2012 4:25 PM
Step 6– You may still have ten or maybe even twenty publishing companies still on your list. Now take a look at their own websites to see for yourself what kind of books they publish. Pick out one or two books similar to your own story and discover where the publisher actually sells them. For instance are they available in book stores or only on internet sites like Amazon. Browsing the books for sale can also tell you if the books are best-sellers. Read the readers reviews etc. Spending time in this area can help build up a picture of the publisher and this kind of research is always fruitful for new writers. |
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Fred Hurr: Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2012 12:29 PM
10 Steps to Success – Part 1 If you are a first time author and looking for a publisher you need to know several facts about the book publishing business. It’s a big ocean to dive into and remember there are sharks. Like any kind of business, and book publishing is a business, there are people who want to make a quick buck out of naïve and vulnerable authors so avoid them at your peril. Step 1 – Write the book. Publishers are not really interested in ideas they want to see proof that a would-be author has the skill, the stamina and the discipline to finish the job. |
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Fred Hurr: Posted on Monday, February 13, 2012 3:23 PM
I am in the process of writing a short book entitled ‘Spiritual Awareness 7 Astonishing Truths to Radically Change Your Life.’ The first three truths are:- Truth No.1 - You may ask me for anything Truth No.2 - God’s new covenant with you Truth No.3 - The mysterious power of the ‘Logos’ (Word) Here is an excerpt from Truth No. 1 ‘Have you ever had someone say to you “ask me for anything and I will do it.” Just imagine waking up every morning and your first thought is ‘now what do I want today’ and knowing all you had to do was call your generous friend on the mobile phone and simply ASK. |
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Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 5:39 PM
Spiritual Warfare Any author embarking on writing a story or a full length novel based upon spiritual warfare must first do his research. Spiritual warfare is an extremely interesting subject and offers a rich tapestry on which to weave an exciting and dramatic plot and it presents the writer with fascinating materials in which to explore ethical, philosophical and spiritual truths. It is a very controversial subject and in Christian circles the spectrum of opinion ranges from total skepticism and disbelief to obsessional beliefs that everything has a demonic origin. |
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Posted on Monday, October 17, 2011 10:43 AM
It wasn’t so long ago that scientists had solved the last missing piece in the creation of the 14 million year old universe. The big bang explained everything and any other view or theory was simply old hat. What the scientists did not tell us was although the Big Bang Theory met some of the conditions of the beginning of the universe it failed to satisfy the finer bits of the cosmology model. Some of the math just didn’t add up. Look out for scientists sweeping unpopular bits of theory under the carpet. |
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Fred Hurr: Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:09 AM
In the beginning El was infinite and eternal. Before the beginning there was no time, no space, no form but El was. The beginning was a moment before time and space; before it came into being in time and space it was incorporeal, without body. The beginning was coalescence of El and the first creation. Nothing pre-existed the beginning except the prime beginner whose name is El but a plurality existed even then before the beginning and beyond the end. In the beginning were the Word and the first word spoken and heard was El. |
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