Well, John Piper has written over 50 books.

So how does he do it?

It's a question I would love to ask you today, Pastor John.

I don't know if there's a process that you have articulated in the past or not.

I don't recall hearing it.

So I'd love to hear about the process you use to write your books and I doubt I'm alone

here.

Assuming that every book, every book I'm sure is a little bit different, but what are

some common stages that you go through when you write books?

Okay.

I do most of what I do, I think, intuitively without following any regimen learned from

a book or from anybody else or that I have formulated in my head.

But when people ask me questions like this and I step outside my head and look at me,

I do see that I do things, you know, there are processes that recur over and over again,

for example, in writing books or writing a poem.

So let me talk about the creation of a book, not the creation of a poem.

Those are very different creative processes and we can do poetry at another time if anybody

cares about that.

Now many people care about poetry these days as much as I do.

So I have six steps that I'll mention that I passed through in writing a book.

Number one, first, a seed thought or a seed idea is sewn in my mind, usually by something

I'm reading or something I'm hearing either positively because I so much want to dig

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