A Liturgy for Beginning an Artistic Work
Happy New Year, dear friends. Here is a liturgy for all the beautiful things you will bring into being this year—both works of art and...
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Sep 22, 2016
RR Interview: Jonny Jimison, creator of The River Fox
Jonny Jimison is the creator of the five-volume graphic novel series The Dragon Lord Saga. I had the opportunity to talk with Jonny about...
Sep 5, 2016
The Craft and Courage of L.M. Montgomery, Pt 3
Here in Part Three, I’d like to take a look at how Montgomery accomplished her magic in very practical ways, and how the rather quotidian...
Sep 2, 2016
How Do You Make Space for Creativity?
A while back, we asked the Facebookers what they do to make space for creativity? Here are a few of their answers. What about the rest of...
Aug 24, 2016
The Craft and Courage of L.M. Montgomery, Pt 2
Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote 22 novels, 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. And by the time of her death in 1942, she was a...
Aug 18, 2016
Tradecraft: Why Are You Here?
I recently sat down with the director of a play I’m working on to let him grill me with questions about the show. His questions covered...
Aug 5, 2016
What Is Imagination? (2/3)
In Part I, we considered how the imagination is the part of us most concerned with transcendent concepts, virtues of “the chest,” and...
Aug 1, 2016
Tradecraft: Be a Revisionary
For the last month or so I’ve been up to my eyebrows in various writing and editing projects. I just finished a round of edits on Walter...
Jul 7, 2016
Writing with Flannery O’Connor
On Monday (July 11) we’ll be starting another round of Writing with Flannery O’Connor—my six-week online course. We’ll dig into...
May 30, 2016
100-Year Vision
I carry through life many images and impressions from my annual childhood treks to Ponca City, Oklahoma. I remember the Marland Mansion &...
May 12, 2016
Writing From Your Roots Class
Last Hutchmoot, Jonathan Rogers and I explored what it means to write out of where we’re from, which you can read more about here. This...
Apr 28, 2016
An Ethic for Aesthetics
Walt Wangerin is working on a great series of posts at his blog. They make for a fascinating window into the mind of a world-class...
Jan 27, 2016
The Writing of Branta and Other Affections (Part 1 of 4)
Walt Wangerin has started a great series of posts on his blog, Between Us. Check out part one, in which he discusses Maurice Sendak and...
Sep 14, 2015
Shop Talk: Tools of the Trade
I recently came across an article by Michele Filgate on Literary Hub entitled “Writers and Their Favorite Tools.” Filgate indulges in a...
Aug 5, 2015
Adventures in Self-Publishing: Resistance
In Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, the antagonist who sabotages many a creative undertaking goes by the name Resistance. Resistance...
Jul 15, 2015
The Slow Growth of Ideas, Part 2
Read the first part of this series here. A few years ago I had the opportunity to attend my first writing conference. Having never been...
Jun 2, 2015
Plato, Aristotle, and Writing Close to the Earth
One fine Easter weekend, having come home from graduate school, I stood in a field where waist-high egg hunters swirled like waterbugs....
May 26, 2015
The Slow Growth of Ideas
Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals what is alive. -Henri Nouwen, “Theological Ideas...
May 14, 2015
Field Notes for Writers, Episode 1: Nouns and Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
[Editor’s note: Jonathan Rogers not only writes great books, tells humorous anecdotes, and wears bowties and seersucker suits, he also...
Mar 16, 2015
The Pencil and the Keyboard
What’s better for your creativity: handwriting or typing? Here is a short but fascinating video making the case for both as essential...
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