Writing 12/16

On Beginning Without The End In Mind

Begin with the end in mind. That’s Habit 2 of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In most human endeavors, this is...

May 10, 2018

Making Friends with the Inner Critic

I’ve gotten a few questions lately about how to start writing a book or story or essay. For many writers, the blank page or blank screen...

Apr 16, 2018

Seeds

“Heaven’s kingdom realm can be compared to the tiny mustard seed that a man takes and plants in his field. Although the smallest of all...

Apr 2, 2018

BOOKS

The Eaten One

In Ursula Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, Tenar is taken as a little girl from her village because she is believed to be the reincarnation...

Apr 1, 2018

His Heart Beats

We don’t know exactly how it all went down, but we do know this: Jesus was dead, and then he wasn’t. A battered corpse was stretched out...

Mar 29, 2018

Rise Up, Let Go

[Editor’s note: Throughout Lent, Sandra McCracken is sharing weekly writings, each of which is tied to a song from her new EP, Songs from...

Mar 23, 2018

Sing Out Your Song

by Sandra McCracken [Editor’s note: Throughout Lent, Sandra McCracken is sharing weekly writings, each of which is tied to a song from...

Mar 15, 2018

Kindness That Carries

by Sandra McCracken [Editor’s note: Throughout Lent, Sandra McCracken will be sharing weekly writings, each of which is tied to a song...

Mar 9, 2018

Christ The Lover

[Editor’s note: Throughout Lent, Sandra McCracken will be sharing weekly writings, each of which is tied to a song from her new EP, Songs...

Mar 6, 2018

What’s So Bad About the Passive Voice?

[Editor’s note: Jonathan Rogers has begun a newsletter in which he shares many years’ worth of practical advice on the craft of writing....

Mar 2, 2018

“Light from Light”

[Editor’s note: Throughout Lent, Sandra McCracken will be sharing weekly writings, each of which is tied to a song from her new EP, Songs...

Feb 27, 2018

Inviting Your Reader Into A Scene

[Editor’s note: Jonathan Rogers has begun a newsletter in which he shares many years’ worth of practical advice on the craft of writing....

On These Our Works Being Works We Will Not Finish

Feb 26, 2018

On These Our Works Being Works We Will Not Finish

Over a decade-and-a-half stint as a lyricist I began to notice a pattern: The songs that mattered most to me tended to also be the ones...

“Abundance and the Sound of the Shepherd”

Feb 22, 2018

“Abundance and the Sound of the Shepherd”

[Editor’s note: Throughout Lent, Sandra McCracken will be sharing weekly writings, each of which is tied to a song from her new EP, Songs...

Feb 20, 2018

On Finding Your Voice

[Editor’s note: Jonathan Rogers has begun a newsletter in which he shares many years’ worth of practical advice on the craft of writing....

Feb 16, 2018

Lent with Sandra McCracken: “Ashes”

[Editor’s note: Throughout Lent, Sandra McCracken will be sharing weekly writings, each of which is tied to a song from her new EP, Songs...

Jan 22, 2018

You Can’t Have Ethics Without Stories

Biblical illiteracy is a problem, not just for the theological integrity of the church, but for the ethics of our everyday lives. You...

The Sheer Face of Story (Why Writers Need an Anchor)

Dec 14, 2017