A few year back I started a book "Biblical Etiquette for Singles', actually the working title at that time was the "The Wisdom of Boaz". It was going to be based on the things we can learn from the wise ways that Boaz treated Ruth (Book of Ruth, in the Bible).
I had 26 principles and one of the principles, and chapters, was relying on "The Wisdom of Women". I started on this chapter first, giving many other examples from the bible and my personal life.
Just the outline was getting lengthy so I decided that after the Boaz book I would write a book titled "The Wisdom of Women". I told others of my plans and every woman I spoke with said, "forget Boaz and get that wisdom of women book written".
I have been working on this project for four years and this is now my journey, to write a book titled the "Brilliance of Women". I have 142 women of the bible picked out , my goal is to have a total of 144, all about the brilliant decisions these women made. I will pick up the Boaz book project at a later date.
The groupings of their brilliant decisions, by chapter, are listed below:
The Brilliance of Women
Chapters:
1. Predictive nature of intuition
2. The Wisdom of women
3. Courageous beyond the call of duty
4. Followed God’s direction
5. Drawn to Faith
6. The lost art of hospitality
7. Generous beyond measure
8. Faithful
9. Positive influence on children
10. Draws others to God
11. Going the extra mile with service
12. The gift of encouragement
13. Wise leadership
14. Persistence, persistence, persistence
15. Loyalty with substance
16. Wisdom during warfare
17. Civilize the uncivilized man
18. The Brilliant nature.
Two publishers and two agents are moderately interested in this project. I promised one of the publishers two chapters by June 1st, 2008. I currently have the two chapters in a "Term Paper" style and am working to change them into "second person narrative" style. The publisher wants to see both styles.
I will regularly be putting book updates on this Blog, or setup a new blog dedicated to this project.
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4 comments:
I love this "brilliant" idea.
And I think it would be completely appropriate to incorporate it into this blog rather than starting a new one.
Maybe you can even give Boaz a little play along the way too. :)
What a wonderful idea! I'm excited to read more.
interesting to hear the story of a book.
brilliant idea! sounds like a compelling outline ...
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