Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Foreword To Story Craft, By: John Erickson

Foreword To Story Craft, By: John Erickson

The foreword to Story Craft (by John Erickson) was penned by writer and intellectual, Nancy Pearcy.

In college I read her book Total Truth – which I remember enjoying greatly.

Here’s to rereading it and dissecting it on this blog one day (soon?).

How great that a children’s fiction author I read as a child, wrote non-fiction that I enjoyed as an adult, with a foreword by a philosopher I read as a teenager.

Like I said: I enjoy it when people I like, enjoy other people I like.

I met John in person for the first time while visiting my parents in Lubbock, Texas. On arriving, I praised the Hank books to my mother (who has a Ph.D. in education) and to our amazement, the newspaper announced that John was slated to present a program at the local library the very next day.

-Nancy Pearcey

-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)

Michael Korda, Writer

Michael Korda, Writer

Michael Korda, a prolific writer in his own right, is more famously known as the long-time editor-and-chief at Simon & Schuster.

I have posted about another well know editor here.

But this excerpt made me think about friends. For we often forget what a delight a lifelong friend can be. And how rare deep and lasting friendships become as the years tick by.

Of course, I now have to read this book: Charmed Lives.

Michael and I became friends and remain friends. In his wonderful book Charmed Lives he describes his famous family: Sir Alexander Korda the great film producer was his uncle, as was Zoltan Korda, director of The Four Feathers and many other films. Vincent Korda, his father, was an Oscar-winning set designer, and his mother was a well-known actress.

-Larry McMurtry, Literary Life (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell