Writers of Emet

Writers of Emet Just an inch deep in the one hundred foot waters they call storytelling :) Learn with me!

KEEP THE STORIES ALIVE // At 15, I was told by author Vincent T. Dacquino to make Revolutionary War heroine Sybil Luding...
08/28/2024

KEEP THE STORIES ALIVE //

At 15, I was told by author Vincent T. Dacquino to make Revolutionary War heroine Sybil Ludington a knot in a counting rope.

Each time Native Americans taught history in the form of stories, they would tie a knot on a rope until the entire rope was used.

It was then passed down through generations. A physical reminder to KEEP THE STORIES ALIVE!

Sometimes it feels like a broken record to say this, but may we never stop believing how strongly these stories of our nation matter, from the most famous to the most unknown.

They made us who we are, and the amazing thing is they’re simply moments where a question was asked and answered rightly! Answered by men and women willing to be inconvenienced for something far too precious to lose—“What will you do for truth?”

Then that MOMENT is made into a piece of stone and what they lived & died for is laid as part of our very foundation.

If our nation must get back to the foundation, and the stories display the material it is made of, then must the stories be kept alive & well, tied into a knot and passed on through generations?

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📷: Abigail Grace Photography/ Abigail Thomsen

05/15/2024

Washington’s army went from 28,000 to 2,400 by Christmas Day, 1776. We were a grain of sand compared to tyranny’s growing and seizing hand.

But, do we really know, what really happened?

I know this is a long video and you don’t even have to watch. I just want to implore whoever I can to look deeply for yourself—press your eye against the magnifying glass of history and it will give you a 30,000 foot view.

How many curtains do we pull back and how many doors do we open in order to step away from shallowness and apathy and run into the never-ending room of the pursuit of truth? How deeply do we look and how closely do we listen?

Do we need to be total nerds who do absolutely nothing else but study? ;) Of course not.

But behind the curtain of this fact—that independence in the long run was won for our country—do we understand the fires that forged such men and women to give everything for that victory to be secured?

Do we care about those nine miles to Trenton moments?

Do we understand that the truth they were willing to die for is the same truth we’re called to live for today?

Hey there! Thank you so much for checking out this page! Reading and writing stories was the first thing I ever loved to...
02/18/2024

Hey there! Thank you so much for checking out this page!

Reading and writing stories was the first thing I ever loved to do, and felt God’s pleasure when doing it, as Olympic gold medalist Eric Liddell spoke of when he would run.

Connecting with other writers and hearing their process/thoughts, or simply seeing a quote they shared has helped me tremendously in not just growing the passion God has given for writing, but acquiring the skills necessary to steward that passion well.

If this can be a help to any fellow writer who “feels His pleasure” when they create stories, that is my prayer and goal!

Writers of Emet came from the Hebrew word for “truth” - “emet / אמת”.

Directed towards the overall purpose of writing for the glory of God—Truth Himself—my goal is to eventually have a website as a concentrated place for resources, test-reading groups, a bookclub, general encouragement, just a hub for any & all info that might be helpful for others as I am learning this wonderful craft myself!

Thank you for joining me on this journey!

2 Peter 3:18 • “But grow in the grace & knowledge of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.”

To Him be all the glory!!
Kamryn

EMET - the Hebrew word for truth has clung to my heart for months now. I pray to only write words of “emet” that honor T...
02/18/2024

EMET - the Hebrew word for truth has clung to my heart for months now.

I pray to only write words of “emet” that honor Truth Himself.

The words in the picture above are from Zechariah 8:16, the Lord’s words to His people - “These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgements that are true and make for peace;”

If you have the gift and growing skill of storytelling, then we both have an opportunity -

an opportunity to twist the k**b and stand in the doorway called Story, and beckon to the soul on the other side . . . invite them in close, into that holy and wonderful place we know and are knowing evermore - Truth. “Come and behold Him! Come and obey Him!”

What Life awaits them on the other side!

May we be people of “emet” . . .

May not one talent be buried, may every drop of ink be used, may the hours be long and the work whole-hearted. May truth be a lighthouse we never seek to dim and a sword that is never sheathed.

Now to add Emet to a future kid’s names list😆😂

There are three people, 1. The shuttle driver turning up Praise & Worship on the radio.2. The man at security checking m...
02/18/2024

There are three people,

1. The shuttle driver turning up Praise & Worship on the radio.

2. The man at security checking mine & Mom’s ID’s, teasing if there were any mom-embarrasses-the-daughter moments on our travel adventure yet (it’s usually vice versa but he doesn’t know that haha).

3. The sweet waitress who just took my empty plate in Admiral’s Club, right before Mom wanted to snap this little photo…

What do all 3 have in common? Well, so much.

But the one I can’t stop thinking about is the simple fact that they each have a different story. There are plots, archs, highs and lows that a “reader” couldn’t possibly know unless they really listened. Unless they dug deep, going from the status of stranger to friend.

Right? Wouldn’t I be more than a stranger once I knew their story, whether just parts or the whole? Because when a story is shared, doesn’t it have this sort of binding affect, the ability to connect people through the avenue of knowing?

That’s why I can’t help but think when I remember these 3 people: what all would be discovered if I could just know pieces, or the whole, of their story. And not just their’s.

What lessons, what gratitude, what regrets, all lie behind the pair of eyes across from me at any given moment? Not to sound creepy lol.

But truly!

How would I be changed if I knew?

How would I see differently, if I only got to see through their eyes for a little while?

I’m pretty much just rambling now, but these thoughts remind me that it’s not about storytelling in the first place. Really, it never will be.

Stories only matter because people matter. And what He’s writing every moment, of every day, through ordinary people matters because HE matters above all else. That’s a lot of matter but it’s pretty simple : )

The Author’s stories say something about Who He is, and He is Who we were made for.

I love what 3 short encounters with ordinary, beloved people can teach you. Keep your eye out today for what matters!

I remember finishing Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace, and The Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers, and wanting to know my Lord Jesu...
02/18/2024

I remember finishing Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace, and The Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers, and wanting to know my Lord Jesus Christ more.

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This is the point. This is the only reason to write. These two stories in particular do not start with chapter one and do not end with the last. Rather, it is Christ and His word that has influenced the pages, and therefore the impact of His truth in those stories will carry on after the book is closed.

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The art, each detail, is all so beautiful, and what some call an escape. But I don’t what to provide an escape...

oh that all we do would be a beckoning!

A beckoning, not to gaze on the beauty of the story and all its details, but to gaze on the beauty of His face and all of His. I don’t know who said this quote pictured below, but I think it describes so well the purpose of a story - to glorify the only Author worthy of praise!

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“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him.” - Colossians 1:15-16

***you should read Ben-Hur!!:)**

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