“Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.” – C.S. Lewis These emails have been going out every Monday for more than four years now. I think I’ve missed a Monday or two, but a recurring theme has been getting past the common barriers to live the higher purpose. Because Mondays come, of course.
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Say I was just a little bit obsessed with writing this book. Would that be so bad? Maybe we have to become saturated with it, like a painter or an actor, to really convince anyone it’s worth their time. I suppose the obvious (and well-documented) problem with this is what such an obsession tends to lead to. Fact is, with writers
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I’m still up on the high of teaching at the Story Vision Fiction Retreat in Seattle. So I’m still thinking about the last session I shared earlier today… Has what you’ve faced made you realize the value of your story? When we’ve been through difficult, painful things that laid us out, we can find God has helped us through. We can
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“The evolving text was never, for Murray, purely a creation of the writer—it was an active participant in the process itself. He would speak of ‘listening to the text,’ or ‘the informing line’; he would describe the thrill of writing outrunning intention and entering new territory….if the writer was alert to cues and possibilities, and not tied to an outline
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