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Trivium
A Glossary of Trivium Terms
Every key term from our Trivium System series, defined in a sentence or two, so you can find the words for what you already do as a writer.
Book Review
Abide in Christ: Andrew Murray's Quiet Classic on Life with Jesus
A nineteenth-century pastor's month of short readings on John 15 still offers one of the clearest pictures of daily fellowship with Christ.
Trivium
From First Conversation to Voice Profile: How Legacy Publishing Studies Your Voice
How we listen to an author from the very first conversation and turn what we hear into a voice profile that guides every page of the book.
Trivium
Genre Craft: How the Kind of Book Shapes the Writing
A memoir, a devotional, a teaching book, and a novel each ask different things of a writer. The fifth layer of the Trivium System studies how genre shapes craft.
Trivium
Grammar: The Bones of a Writer's Voice
The first layer of the Trivium System looks at how a writer builds sentences and chooses words, the quiet habits that make a voice recognizable.
Podcasting
How to Promote Your Book with a Podcast
A practical guide to finding the right shows, telling your story well, and turning every conversation into readers.
Trivium
Logic: How Writers Connect Ideas
The second layer of the Trivium System studies how an author links one idea to the next, from the shape of an argument to the order of a story.
Craft
Order and Pace: Story Time and Telling Time
Every story has two clocks: the time the events took and the time the telling takes. Learning to work both is one of the great skills of memoir and testimony.
Trivium
Rhetoric: How Writers Move a Reader
The third classical art is about how words persuade, delight, and stir a reader to act, and every author already uses it in a way all their own.
Craft
Schemes and Tropes: A Plain-English Guide to Figures of Speech
Repetition, contrast, metaphor, and more: the classic figures of speech, explained in plain words with examples from the King James Bible.
Craft
The Five Canons of Rhetoric: An Ancient Checklist for Writing a Book
Invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery: a two-thousand-year-old outline that still maps the journey from idea to finished book.
Book Review
The Four Loves: Why C.S. Lewis Still Speaks to Marriage, Friendship, and Faith
Lewis's short, searching book on affection, friendship, romance, and charity remains one of the wisest guides to the loves that shape a life.
Craft
The Thinkers Behind Modern Writing: From Aristotle to Today
A short guide to the teachers, preachers, and scholars who named the ideas writers still use, from ancient Greece to the modern writing classroom.
Devotional
Thy Kingdom Come: Living Heaven on Earth Today
A short devotional on the prayer Jesus taught us, and what it means to carry heaven into ordinary days.
Writing
Turning Your Story into a Book: From Testimony to Manuscript
Practical first steps for shaping what God has done in your life into a book that serves readers.
Trivium
Voice and Identity: What Makes You Sound Like You
The fourth layer of the Trivium System looks past grammar and rhetoric to the person behind the page: their stories, values, history, and the things they choose to leave unsaid.
Trivium
What Is the Trivium System? How We Listen for an Author's Voice
The Trivium System is the framework Legacy Publishing uses to study how an author writes, built on the oldest course in language arts and extended for modern books.
Publishing
Why Write a Legacy Book? A Word for Pastors, Leaders, and Parents
The lessons God has taught you were meant to be passed on. A book is one of the most lasting ways to do it.