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One of these great angel book authors rewrote her book on a dare, an experiment. It was extraordinarily successful. Read what she did. It's really fun...
EJ Thornton, Author of Angel On Board,
re-wrote her book in a most fascinating way...
EJ got the ''not" out.
EJ Thornton
rewrote her novel to make a "positive point." She took every occurrence of the words 'no' and 'not' out of her classic story'
Angel On Board. By rephrasing common sentences such as 'Don't worry,' into 'Relax,' and 'Don't forget,' into 'Remember,' she completely transformed her original work into an affirmative new creation.
She's always been keenly aware of the different 'feel' words have even when their meanings are essentially the same. Knowing the delivery of the message is as important as the message itself, inspired her to experiment with the novel. The book contains some difficult topics (like
death,
alcoholism, infidelity and recovery), yet it is intended to be a comfort to its readers. So she decided to reduce the stress level of the
book by taking out the 'nots' to see if she could tell the same, or maybe even a better story.
What started out as an experiment in affirmative language turned into the
discovery
of astonishing insights such as 'The word NOT is completely expendable.' The rephrasing got easier as the work progressed. The 288 page novel had nearly 2000 occurrences of the negative words, but they have all been totally removed.
Early on, Thornton gave review chapters to people who had already read Angel On Board asking if they could tell the difference. They reported:
- 'It was astoundingly better'
- 'It felt really good to read'
- 'The changes were seamless'
- 'People rarely miss what's been omitted'
'The insights were many and enlightening about the way we choose words,' EJ says when she speaks about the process. Some of the hardest passages of the
book to make positive were the ones that came from the bible . "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares. - Hebrews 13:2" "Be not forgetful" transformed to "Always remember..."
The questions that we ask each other are usually leading questions instead of genuine questions. Just rephrasing the question, "Don't you want to do that?" to "Do you want to do that?" changes the tone and the expectation and turns the question into something the 'askee' can genuinely respond to.
The author offers the challenge that after you read it, share it with someone - without telling them what is missing from the book and see if they notice anything different. Then ask them how they felt as they read it. Since people rarely miss what has been omitted, EJ's betting they'll never notice. If they do notice, EJ will send you a free gift. Write to her at ej@ejthornton.com. Any prize has yet to be claimed.
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