The Writing Life
Grace is the only air not toxic to humans. – Ann Voskamp
You breathe in a lot of things during the day. Hurtful words. Not being asked to join your co-workers for lunch. Tragic stories, some that hit closer to home than others. A loved one forgetting an important date.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12 (NASB)
The writing life – and the life of faith – are ones of continual exercise. Paul tells Timothy to exercise in God daily (1 Timothy 4:6-10, The Message). No spiritual flabbiness is allowed. For the writer who holds her art as a means of exercising both her talent and faith, the same holds true. She has to exercise. She has to train because it makes her fit “both today and forever.”
[Read more…] about How to be a Better Writer: Exercise Your Writing
Community isn’t found; it’s built. Once built, you have to fight for it each and every day. [Read more…] about Fight for Community
The more I’ve promoted Write Right’s Emergency Hope Kit, the more Dean Young’s words come to mind. He’s speaking of writing, but he says it’s the “horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.”
A newly released film is like a satellite. It might transmit or not. I’m on the ground and have to find something else to do. – Keith Maitland