Write Now Literary is pleased to organize a two-week book tour and Amazon gift card giveaway for This Too Shall Pass by David Yuen. The book tour will run from July 17-28th, 2023.
ISBN: 979-8218186210
Genre: Christian. Poems, Prose & Essays
Meet The Author...
Born and raised in NJ as a
second-generation Chinese American, David Yuen received a B.A. from Rutgers
University and has been writing poetry along with other writing styles for over
twenty years. His works have appeared in other publications including Poetry
East and Romantics Quarterly.
About The
Book
Life is a gift. A fleeting, complicated, painful gift. Life holds death, it holds struggle with God, and it holds precious relationships we easily take for granted. And with every event that threatens life as we know it, our perspective on it changes, whether it’s a pandemic, a shift in politics, the tragedy of war, or personal loss. This Too Shall Pass is an exploration of life—sorrowful, mysterious, funny, and beautiful—through a collection of poems, prose, memoir, and commentary written from a mostly Christian perspective. Life is no small thing. Life is no easy thing. Life is uncertain. But one thing is certain about life: it’s miraculous.
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Five Ways to Find Inspiration
1. 1. Reflect on your own life and how you feel about it. Some say life imitates art, while
others say that art imitates life. Both are simultaneously true to some level,
but, at the end of the day, life—namely your own life—is one the biggest
well-springs of inspiration. Ask yourselves the hard questions. Ask yourselves
the funny ones. Ask yourselves the things that you would ask if you treated
yourself as another person from the outside looking in. At times, you’ll be
surprised by what you find.
2. 2.Force yourself to write even when you have nothing. Most times, writing needs to be a
discipline rather than random trips into the emotional field with a metal pole
hoping that lightning strikes you (metaphorically speaking). Not everything you
write will be gold and you need to accept that and take that pressure of
perfection off of you. When you have a blank canvas in your mind and it’s been
almost a half an hour of you staring at a blank screen that might be the time
to start typing words. Just type and see what happens. When you get yourself
into the discipline of writing regardless of how you feel, you will produce
something. Maybe nothing groundbreaking, but something that might get that
spark going and keep you going to something greater than you expect.
3. 3.Take a break from writing to do other things. Going off the last point, just as
much as you need to discipline yourself into a writing routine even when you
don’t feel inspired, give yourself a much-needed break and do something
unrelated from time to time. Sometimes even going outside is enough to relax
your mind so it can run into something worthwhile. Discipline is good. Giving
yourself grace when grace is needed is great. Balance is the key.
4. 4.Engage your life. I’ve heard horror stories of aspiring writers who would sacrifice so many
things for their craft, whether it be relationships with their friends and
family or even their own mental wellness. Just because you want to be a devoted
writer doesn’t mean that life should stop for you. Have a life outside of your
writing with your friends and family. Attend BBQs, birthdays and movie night
get togethers. Be part of the lives of others. By engaging in the lives of
those you love and who love you in return, inspiration will find a way.
5. 5. Devote yourself to something beyond your writing. Devoting yourself too much to your
writing is sometimes like trying to tickle yourself. The more you focus on it
the less you’ll achieve it. When you focus your life on something greater than yourself
and away from what you expect from yourself the more you ironically accomplish
the thing that you set aside. With myself, the thing I focus on is God and the
kingdom of heaven—on loving the Lord God with all my being and loving others
more than myself (writing related or not). Writing is something that I just do
and is tool that I can at times use to serve that end. And when I put that into
perspective, ironically, I believe that my writing becomes more effective than
if I saw writing as a be all and end all of my life.
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