@PeterLeavell

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

 Meridian Idaho
peterleavell.com/
Joined March 2012
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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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“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.
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Peter Leavell retweeted
NASA
@NASA20 Jul 2024
"The Eagle has landed." On July 20, 1969 — 55 years ago today — #Apollo11 touched down on the Moon.
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. Credit: NASA/Neil Armstrong

ALT Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. Credit: NASA/Neil Armstrong

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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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@TrungTPhan13 Jul 2024
Two months after he was shot in an attempted assassination, Reagan was giving a speech in West Berlin and a balloon popped, sounding like a gunshot. Without a hitch, he goes “missed me”.
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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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Peter Leavell retweeted
Terry Whalin
@terrywhalin4 Jan 2024
Lessons From Twelve Years of Writing by novelist and editor Peter Leavell (@PeterLeavell) on @MyBookTherapy #writingtip #writing #pubtip ow.ly/L5Cs50QlVtQ
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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 buff.ly/3RHZ7vQ
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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 buff.ly/41C7huh
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Lessons From Twelve Years of Writing by @PeterLeavell on @MyBookTherapy #writingtip #writing #pubtip buff.ly/3RDyp7A
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