Peter Leavell

Winner of the Christian Writers Guild's 2011 Operation First Novel contest. History is the passion. Historical Fiction is the game. BA History, MA English Lit

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Write until you’re inspired.

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Don’t buy, do.

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“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
― Groucho Marx

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Pablo Picasso: "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"

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Who, what, why, when, and where are so essential to the writer, tattoo the list to the back of your eyelids.

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'It's all in Plato, all in Plato: Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools? - Digory Kirke' (Lewis)

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Is the history we were taught in schools able to produce the present we are living in?

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‘Light troubles speak. The weighty are struck dumb.’ Seneca

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@BJRains Thanks for posting.

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“They write wild and pointless articles and letters in the press about why the churches are empty, without even going there to find out if they are empty…” Chesterton complaining about no fact checking in the early 1900’s and artificial problem making. (The Everlasting Man)

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At BCA we want to illuminate and understand what is Good, True, and Beautiful. We teach the Good in building Christ-like character, the Truth through God's Word, and the Beautiful in seeing God's hand in all things that leads us to worship.

[NASA @NASA]

"The Eagle has landed."

On July 20, 1969 — 55 years ago today — #Apollo11 touched down on the Moon.

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“Get action; do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create; act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.” Theodore Roosevelt

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I don't remember this, but what amazing composure and sense of timing.

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle

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Lessons From Twelve Years of Writing by novelist and editor Peter Leavell (@PeterLeavell) on @MyBookTherapy #writingtip #writing #pubtip https://t.co/xCMHQZhXxQ

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On studying history: "All our destinies are interwoven; and until the last of us has lived, the significance of the first cannot finally be clear." Hans Urs von Balthasar

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What have I learned over the past 12 years writing for the site? @PeterLeavell on @MyBookTherapy #writingtip #writing #pubtip https://t.co/niAvVwaqF1

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History is the taxonomy and taxidermy of culture.

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What have I learned over the past 12 years writing for the site? @PeterLeavell on @MyBookTherapy #writingtip #writing #pubtip https://t.co/RENvHr6quP