JUST WORDS: WWHD?

When faced with a dilemma, Christians ask, WWJD? What would Jesus do? When faced with a dilemma, of plot or characterization or anything else, writers ask, WWHD? What would Hemmingway do?

The answers of Jesus and Hemmingway are surprisingly similar: go fishing. Hemmingway’s answer is more complete: WWHD? Get drunk and go fishing.

John Robert McFarland

I am indebted to daughter, @KatieWritesBks, writer of MG and YA books, for the insight into what Hemmingway would do.

I also write Christ in Winter: Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter. http://christinwinter.blogspot.com/

In case you missed it, a Tweet Repeat: Without courage no other virtue is possible.

I tweet as yooper1721.

           

My novel, VETS, will be published by Black Opal Books in late 2014 or early 2015.

MY OTHER BOOKS:

NOW THAT I HAVE CANCER I AM WHOLE: Reflections on Life and Healing for Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them [AndrewsMcMeel & HarperAudio, with Czech and Japanese translations] Paul K. Hamilton, MD, the co-founder of CanSurmount, called it “The best book for cancer patients, by a cancer patient, ever.”

AN ORDINARY MAN [HarperPaperbacks] Randall MacLane just wanted to be an ordinary man. But sent with a message for Custer, he became a drifting lawman with a knack for killing, and a deep well of loneliness. Then a twist of fate brought him full circle…

THE STRANGE CALLING: Stories of Ministry [Smyth&Helwys] I didn’t want to be a preacher, but I made a deal with God to save my sister’s life. Was that really a “call,” though? I said, “I’ll try t for 50 years, and if I still don’t know, I’ll do something else.” These are stories of what happened in those years of questioning the call.

WHEN FATHER RODE THE MAIL and Other Stories of Christmas [lulu.com] ISBN 978-1-300-38566-0

If you like baseball poetry, take a look at “Frosty & the Babe” http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/frosty_and_the_babe.shtml