Comments on: It’s OK to Copy the Bible http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/ Encouragement for writing parents and for anyone who loves inspiring books for kids Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Janice (5 Minutes for Mom) http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6749 Janice (5 Minutes for Mom) Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:12:57 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6749 That is so sweet about your daughter! I love that quote of CS Lewis that Michael write in the comments. It is so true. My graphic artist friend says that that is how they work and studied. They study other work and then create their own. As a writer, I do the same as CS Lewis says. I often am tempted to worry that what I am writing has been said a million times, but then I just let it go and write from my own heart. That is so sweet about your daughter!

I love that quote of CS Lewis that Michael write in the comments. It is so true. My graphic artist friend says that that is how they work and studied. They study other work and then create their own.

As a writer, I do the same as CS Lewis says. I often am tempted to worry that what I am writing has been said a million times, but then I just let it go and write from my own heart.

]]> By: Kate http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6716 Kate Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:34:39 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6716 I really loved this piece on plagiarizing! I found you from CWO and I am so glad I did!! God bless your blogging home! I really loved this piece on plagiarizing! I found you from CWO and I am so glad I did!! God bless your blogging home!

]]> By: Carol http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6701 Carol Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:03:41 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6701 What a great way to hide His word in her little heart! It is, after all, the greatest story ever (re)told. What a great way to hide His word in her little heart! It is, after all, the greatest story ever (re)told.

]]> By: amanda http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6698 amanda Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:40:21 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6698 I really liked this post!! Thanks for sharing it with us!! I really liked this post!!

Thanks for sharing it with us!!

]]> By: Ruth http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6678 Ruth Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:15:52 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6678 awwww. kids are so precious. awwww. kids are so precious.

]]> By: Doug http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6677 Doug Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:14:42 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6677 Heather (and Andrew): Susi told me about this posting on plagiarizing as we have had similar conversations around our dinner table. These have been some great times of explaining why it is wrong. It's a shame that students think they have to resort to stealing in order to try and pass a course. It does more than damage their grade, it damages their integrity. Doug Heather (and Andrew):
Susi told me about this posting on plagiarizing as we have had similar conversations around our dinner table. These have been some great times of explaining why it is wrong. It’s a shame that students think they have to resort to stealing in order to try and pass a course. It does more than damage their grade, it damages their integrity.
Doug

]]> By: Heather http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6657 Heather Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:42:14 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6657 Thanks for this quote, Michael. I do think we learn to create by first copying the masters. Japanese children learn to draw by copying artwork from comic books and paintings. Then they go on to create their own. All of my students there were so talented in drawing -- all of them! Yet here, we value creativity right off the bat -- even before we've studied beneath the masters. It will be interesting to see how a 6-year-old copying the Bible one day comes up with her own scriptural insights. Thanks for this quote, Michael. I do think we learn to create by first copying the masters.

Japanese children learn to draw by copying artwork from comic books and paintings. Then they go on to create their own. All of my students there were so talented in drawing — all of them!

Yet here, we value creativity right off the bat — even before we’ve studied beneath the masters.

It will be interesting to see how a 6-year-old copying the Bible one day comes up with her own scriptural insights.

]]> By: Michael http://heatherivester.com/2006/12/14/its-ok-to-copy-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-6656 Michael Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:29:06 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=722#comment-6656 "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." -C. S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity The whole chapter (The Nice Men) this is taken from ties in nicely, an interesting study on originality and personality. “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

-C. S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity

The whole chapter (The Nice Men) this is taken from ties in nicely, an interesting study on originality and personality.

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