“Take your mind out and dance on it. It’s getting all caked up.” Mark Twain

Concerning religious writing, Sherwood E. Wirt, offers several resolutions for the would-be writer which seem applicable to any writer:

1. I will not write corn—banal, sentimental, obvious stuffy tripe.
2. I will either seek to write imaginatively, or I will not write.
3. I will not waste my time on insignificant materlal.
4. I will write to change lives, if I can.
5. I will politely ignore those who would flatter me.
6. I will write in quantity but strive for quality.
7. I will thankfully give whatever glory comes to God, who alone imparts all gifts, including this gift.

(taken from The Christian Writer’s Book by Don M. Aycock and Leonard G. Goss)