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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Jul 28, 2010
Is it Kind? Is it Necessary?
Rabbit Room favorite Melanie Penn wrote these kind, necessary words on her blog recently and let us re-post them here. Melanie’s album...
Jun 2, 2010
Everybody Has a Story
Donald Miller’s teaching on life-as-story has been so good for me over the years. Stephen Lamb reviewed A Million Miles in a Thousand...
Apr 7, 2010
Writing the Old Roads
It’s 2:27 AM and I just got home from a little cabin in the Tennessee mountains, where a logger taught me something about art and...
Feb 16, 2010
Finding Criticism (II)
In the last couple of months I’ve been asked by several people how to go about finding a critique group. I’ve talked a bit about this...
Feb 11, 2010
The Long Road Ahead
The last couple of months have been incredibly busy. The release of The Fiddler’s Gun and the Christmas season at the Rabbit Room kept me...
Jan 7, 2010
Appreciating Your Betters
As a reader of books who also writes, I often feel a distinct, conflicting emotion when I read great books written by great writers....
Oct 5, 2009
The Narrative Bridge
A while back a friend of mine bemoaned the sad fact that an otherwise good song had such a poorly written bridge that it soured the rest...
Jan 25, 2009
The Invisible Hand Dilemma
Two years ago I had a chance to sit under the instruction of one of my favorite fictional authors, Orson Scott Card. Well, he isn’t...
Oct 23, 2008
How Stories Do Their Work on Us
Reading with my children has reminded me of a truth that years of adulthood had almost caused me to forget: that “story” is truer than...
May 27, 2008
The Health of the Storyteller
I write and speak for a living. Sometimes it is my own story that I communicate while many times it is the stories of others – of...
Apr 28, 2008
On the Table: A Common Thread
Question of the Week: “Can you identify a common thematic thread that runs through your work– something that separates you from other...
Apr 9, 2008
On the Table: Jumpstarting the Process
After last week’s ridiculously fun introduction to the On the Table feature, I’m a little worried that the real deal will never measure...
Mar 2, 2008
Getting Lost
Lost, oh how I love thee! Did you see last week’s episode? Wow, what a perfect example of why this show is the best thing on TV. Lost is...
Feb 25, 2008
The Hard Part (III)
One sweet day I’m going to have a lot of friends who are literary agents and I’m going to make them send me specifically formatted...
Jan 3, 2008
The Hard Part
A few years ago I decided to stop talking about writing a book and actually wrote one. If you had asked me before writing it what I...
Dec 12, 2007
How To Know What To Say (and When Not To Say It)
It is a good thing to wake up feeling healthy after having been ill. I am crawling out from under the terrible anvil of what amounts to...
Dec 4, 2007
Style and Grace
I often hear people talk about how the act of writing helps you understand the thing you’re writing about. That’s true as far as it goes....
Oct 16, 2007
Welcome to the Rabbit Room
Two years ago I walked the streets of Oxford with my wife. We were in London for a few days during the final throes of Spring and took...
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