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Writing Inspirations
A template for a Core Inspiration is provided at the end of this Writer's Guide. When submitting a Core Inspiration, the target date for which the submission is written should appear on the first line. Create four headings: Theme Intro, Commentary, Proverb and Prayer. Provide your narrative under the appropriate heading. Try to follow word counts suggested in the Writer’s Guidelines, shorter is better! Quality counts more than quantity.

Purpose and Tone
MbM will inspire, encourage and empower believers from many religious traditions, many walks of life and diverse cultures, so avoid exclusionary language. Be inclusive. Avoid gender-specific, age-specific, and marital status-specific language in the Core Inspirations. Avoid divisive, one-sided arguments on political, social and theological issues. Vanilla is good.
Notify us of your intention to write a week of Inspirations so that we do not have two people who write for the same week. Send one week of content, Monday-Sunday, in a single attachment, using the provided Liturgical Calendar and Weekly Themes. Name the file "Inspiration Date", such as Inspiration Feb 2-8, 2005. Template for Inspiration
Bolded items are pre-selected by Morning By Morning. Total narrative developed by writers should not exceed 350 words total for the four sections for which writers are responsible, Parts III, V, VII and IX, which are in red letter font below. Interesting Almanac features for Part II might be included, as well.

Part I: Greeting

Part II: Almanac/Liturgical Calendar Factoid

Part III: Narrative Introduction (approx. 50 words):

Weekly Theme enunciated, keyed to the Gospel reading on Monday
Prepare the reader for the scripture which follows

Part IV: Primary Scripture Reading for the day

Part V: Life application (approx. 200 words).

May contain, but not limited to some of the following:

Anecdote
Quotation (lends name recognition and credibility to our content)
Humor

Part VI: Proverb
3 year cycle through the book of Proverbs, one verse per day

Part VII: Comment on the proverb, tied to theme and readings (approx. 50 words)

Part VIII: Fruit of the Spirit (assigned by day of the week, 2 week cycle, M-F)

Part IX: Prayer (original, or quoted) (approx. 50 words)

Part X: Your by-line appears here.
Name, thumbnail photo and e-mail contact (a Morning by Morning address that will link to your e-mail, keeping your personal e-mail address private).

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